Bee Quotes and Sayings
Our collection of bee quotes and sayings will keep you as busy as a bee.
When you buy just 16 ounces of honey, there are a thousand bees behind it that traveled over a hundred thousand miles and visited more than 4.5 million flowers.
It is no wonder that many great men and women have been inspired to study these beautiful creatures and write amazing phrases, poems, and songs on them. It is not just about their beauty and inspiring hard work. Bees are also essential for human existence.
Honey bees are so important to humans that they are the most studied creature, second only to human beings. Here are some beautiful bee quotes from some famous folks.
Best Quotes Bees
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t, they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
Ray Bradbury
If we die, we’re taking you with us.
The Bees
We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between, we garden.
Unknown
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Blake
A bee is an exquisite chemist.
Royal Beekeeper to Charles II
The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
William Longgood
When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
Srikumar Rao
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Quotes About Bees
Words are like bees – some create honey, and others leave a sting.
Unknown
When the bee comes to your house, let her have a beer; you may want to someday visit the bee’s house.
Congo Proverb
You are the bee’s knees.
A popular saying in the 1920s like cat’s pajamas
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
Take time to smell the roses, and eventually, you’ll inhale a bee.
Unknown
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey. Matshona Dhliwayo
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
Isaac Watts
For bees, the flower is the fountain of life/For flowers. The bee is the messenger of love.
Kahlil Gibran
Best Bee Quotes
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For a man, it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice Maeterlinck
The men of the experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Leonardo da Vinci
The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret I am not a bee.
Emily Dickinson
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
John Muir
Let us linger a while in the wonderful old Lilac walk. It is a glory of tender green and shaded amethyst and the grateful hum of bees, the very voice of Spring.
Alice Morse Earle
It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.
Sue Monk Kidd
To make a prairie, it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
The Hum
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
Elizabeth Lawrence
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are, in truth, nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.
Muriel Barbery
Don’t wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.
Anne Raver
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard
Keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Henry David Thoreau
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
Saint Francis de Sales
A work of art; and yet no art of man,
Can work, this work, these little creatures can.
Geffrey Whitney
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…
Leo Tolstoy
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
Helen Hunt Jackson
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
St. John Chrysostom
The Birds and The Bees Quotations
The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.
Karl Von Frisch
Listen to the bees and let them guide you.
Brother Adam
Every saint has a bee in his halo.
Elbert Hubbard
He is not worthy of the honeycomb/That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
William Shakespeare
I don’t like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No – when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison flowers.
John Keats
The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger.
Hilda M. Ransome
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Nietzsche
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise/Their Master’s flower, but leave it having done/As fair as ever and as fit to use/So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
George Herbert
Einstein Bee Quote
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
Albert Einstein
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee – His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.
Muhammad Ali
Tips for how to help save bees.
Honey Bee Quotations
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Proverb
We’re all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren’t we honey?
Bette Davis
The secret of my health is applying honey inside and oil outside.
Democritus
The only reason for being a bee that I know of is to make honey… And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.
Winnie the Pooh
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
Abraham Lincoln
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift
Not a single bee has ever sent you an invoice…nature is free because it is not invoiced because it is not priced because it is not traded in markets; we tend to ignore it.
Pavan Sukhdev
If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth.
Benjamin Franklin
A Bee Fun Fact
Honeybees pollinate 80 percent of the United States’ insect crops – over $20 billion worth of crops each year – according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates.
Check out Sunflower Fun Facts.
The Secret Life of Bees Quotes
Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.
Sue Monk Kidd
Well, if you have a queen and a group of independent-minded bees that split off from the rest of the hive and look for another place to live, then you’ve got a swarm.
August
If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.
Sue Monk Kidd
Our mother said she was like Mary, with her heart on the outside of her chest.
August
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Sue Monk Kidd
Most people don’t have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don’t know anything about.
August
After you get stung, you can’t get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.
Sue Monk Kidd
When I’m dead and gone, That’s what I want from you. The streets of heaven are gold and sunny, But I’ll stick with my plot and a pot of honey. Place a beehive on my grave And let the honey soak through.
Sue Monk Kidd
Akeelah and the Bee Quotes
You know that feeling where everything feels right? Where you don’t have to worry about tomorrow or yesterday, where you feel safe and know you’re doing the best you can? There’s a word for that, it’s called love. L-O-V-E.
Akeelah
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Akeelah
Okay. But when I’m at the bee, and they tell me to spell some little fish from Australia or some weird bacteria on the moon, we’re going to wish we’d done a little bit more rote-memorizing and not so much essay reading. If you don’t mind me saying.
Akeelah
Queen Bee Sayings
I’m just getting better and better. It’s just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee because I’m not a queen bee. I’m a king bee.
Shaquille O’Neal
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Suzy Kassem
He is not worthy of the honey-comb/That shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
William Shakespeare
Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, a peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself and no one’s companion.
Franz Grillparzer
The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Leonardo da Vinci
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite.
William Shakespeare
Bumblebee Quotes
Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
It was the bumblebee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.
Meridel Le Sueur
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumblebees;
critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
Mason Cooley
I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself, and getting as close to the bees’ lives as they will let me—remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.
Sue Hubbell
Work hard; stay bumble.
Unknown
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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