What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Bee Quotes
A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
As busy as a bee.
Bees that have honey in their nostrils have stings in their tails.
All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn’t sweeten its sting.
‘Bee vomit,’ my brother said once, ‘that’s all honey is,’ so that I could not put my tongue to its jellied flame without tasting regurgitated blossoms.
In India we have a saying that the fly sits on the filth as well as the honey, but the bee seeks only the honey and avoids the filth.
Wiser far than human seer, yellow-breeched philosopher! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet. Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
The queen lives in Egyptian darkness and stately seclusion of the royal apartments, with none about her but plebeian servants, who give her empty lip-affection in place of the love which her heart hungers for; who spy upon her in the interest of her waiting heirs, and report and exaggerate her defects and deficiencies to […]
You passionate, Powdery Pastoral bandits, Who gave you your Roaming and Rollicking mandates? Come out of my Foxglove; come Out of my roses You bees with the Plushy and Plausible noses!
