Buzzing Wisdom: A Captivating Collection of Bee Inspirational Quotes

"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left"

- Albert Einstein

"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees"

- Marcus Aurelius

"Bee yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway"

- Mary Kay Ash

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

- Muhammad Ali

"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

"Anyone who thinks they're too small to make a difference has never met the honey bee."

- Anon

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Honey doesn’t lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting"

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers"

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can."

- Stephen Richards

"Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope."

- Christy Lefteri

"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive"

- Abraham Lincoln

"The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water"

- Karl von Frisch

"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."

- David Attenborough

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

- Robert Swan

"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfilment."

- David Attenborough

"One bee cannot build a hive; one ant cannot build a colony."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow"

- William Blake

"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

"If your soul is sweet like honey, people will be drawn to you like bees."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bees."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey"

- John Burroughs

"The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others."

- St. John Chrysostom

"It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur"

- Meridel Le Sueur

"A bee that makes honey is great, but a bee that makes other bees that make honey is extraordinary."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, 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

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it."

- John Muir

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

- African Proverb

"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom"

- William Shakespeare

"Listen to the bees and let them guide you."

- Brother Adam

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe, man would have no more than four years of life to live."

- Albert Einstein

"The bee is domesticated but not tamed"

- William Longgood

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it"

- John Muir

"A bee's sting is sweet if all you are thinking about is getting honey."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth"

- Benjamin Franklin

"The lovely flowers embarrass me; they make me regret I am not a bee"

- Emily Dickinson

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower"

- Kin Hubbard

"The hum of bees is the voice of the garden"

- Elizabeth Lawrence

"Bees… by virtue of a certain geometrical forethought, knew that the hexagon is greater than the square and the triangle and will hold more honey for the same expenditure of material"

- Pappus

"Nothing gives a person more confidence... than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit"

- Sue Hubbell

"I'm a worker bee"

- Leslie Jordan

"The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee"

- Emily Dickinson

"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man, it is to know that and to wonder at it."

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey."

- Aristotle

"He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings."

- William Shakespeare

"If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees."

- Henry Adams

"Place a beehive on my grave, And let the honey soak through. 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

"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

"We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it."

- Barack Obama

"The sweeter the honey the smarter the bee that made it."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"It is a flower's scent, not its size, that lures bees."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Bees are not your enemy if honey is your friend."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Where you find bees you find honey."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it’s really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic."

- James Jean-Pierre

"When a bee stings you it is preserving its life, not its honey."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower."

- Kin Hubbard

"If you have no honey in your pot, have some in your mouth."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Every saint has a bee in his halo"

- Elbert Hubbard

"Man produces evil as a bee produces honey."

- William Golding

"For honey bees, a dandelion is the first sign of Spring!"

- June Stoyer

"Honey is a bee's sweat."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"The bee believes in both individuals: One who is the caretaker to produce honey and the one who helps to protect the nature."

- theamitkumarswords

"It's only one straw,' said 8 billion people."

- Anon

"Nothing gives a person more confidence…than to be zipped snugly inside a bee suit."

- Sue Hubbell

"The sweetest honey, is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite."

- William Shakespeare

"Beauties are like flowers, and I, like a bee, can't help but feel drawn to each one I see."

- Mouloud Benzadi

"A tongue stings stronger than a bee."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

"The bees are beautiful in nature and eagerly looking at the flower."

- theamitkumarswords

"It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy – the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted."

- Author Unknown

"Did you know that honey bees came over with the Pilgrims? They are not recognized as citizens but corporations are!"

- June Stoyer

"When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day."

- Congo Proverb

"Bee the change you want to see"

"Bee clever, bee witty, bee happy"

"It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted"

- Unknown

"Words are like bees – some create honey and others leave a sting"

- Unknown

"You are the bee’s knees."