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Strictly speaking, one never 'keeps' bees - one comes to terms with their wild nature.
He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.
I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting.
I love the Bee Gees, but only the pre-disco stuff. From '64 to '69, I've got all their albums.
Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them.
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
My parents never had to tell me about the birds and the bees, you know? It was very out in the open.
I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere.
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.
For a while, some schools across the country were banning spelling bees. For obvious reasons, of course - steroids
I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]
I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.
When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
Because life goes on, L. The birds do their thing, and the bees do theirs. Seeds get scattered, and everything grows back.
Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.