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

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"

- Muhammad Ali

"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

"Bee yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Robert Green Ingersoll

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

- Karl Von Frisch

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

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

- Anon

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

- Christy Lefteri

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

- Stephen Richards

"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

"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

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"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

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

- Sir David Attenborough

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

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Sir David Attenborough

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

- Robert Swan

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Meridel Le Sueur

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

- St. John Chrysostom

"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

"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

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow"

- William Blake

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- John Muir

"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

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Brother Adam

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

- African Proverb

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Barack Obama

"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

"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

"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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Aristotle

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

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- 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

"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

"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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Kin Hubbard

"Man produces evil as a bee produces honey."

- William Golding

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

- Anon

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

- theamitkumarswords

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

- June Stoyer

"A tongue stings stronger than a bee."

- Tamerlan Kuzgov

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

- William Shakespeare

"Honey is a bee's sweat."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

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

- Sue Hubbell

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

- Mouloud Benzadi

"Every saint has a bee in his halo"

- Elbert Hubbard

"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

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

- theamitkumarswords

"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."