Bees are probably the most useful insects. They are loved for their honey, but feared for their sting. This collection of quotes and proverbs about bees is a subset of the quotes and proverbs about insects.
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A bee in one's bonnet.An impulsive, often eccentric turn of mind; a notion.
A bee was never caught in a shower.
A dead bee will make no honey.
A hive of bees in May is worth a load of hay.
Bees do not become hornets.
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
Better a handful of bees than a basket full of flies.
Better have one bee than a host of flies.
Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees.(unknown author)
Boys avoid the bees that stung'em.
Flies like a butterfly, stings like a bee.(unknown author)
This refers to Mohammad Ali (boxer).
From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
He keeps hives and hives of great fierce bees, and lives most on cream and honey.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking about Beorn
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
He who would gather honey must bear the sting of the bees.
He's like the master bee that leads forth the swarm.
If a bee didn't have a sting, she couldn't keep her honey.
If a bee stings you once, it's the bee's fault; if a bee stings you twice, it's your own damn fault.
If you let the bee be, the bee will let you be.
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.Henry David Thoreau
In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.Bible
Source: Isaiah 7:18
Its the roving bee that gathers honey.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.William Golding
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
Old bees yield no honey.
One bee is as good as a handful of flies.
One bee is better than a thousand flies.
One bee makes no honey; one grain makes no rice soup.
The bee stays not in a hive that has no honey.
The bee that makes the honey doesn't stand around the hive, and the man who makes the money has to worry, work, and strive.
The bee works all summer and eats honey all winter.
The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter.
The bees make honey but cannot eat it; the sea-swallows build nests but cannot live in them.
The buzzing of the flies does not turn them into bees.
The drone bee dies soon after the wedding night.
The noise of the giant bees flying to and fro and crawling in and out filled all the air.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About Beorn's bee hives
The three most difficult to understand; the mind of a woman, the labor of the bees and the ebb and flow of the tide.(unknown author)
The wise bee does not sip from a flower that has fallen.
There was a buzzing and a whirring and a droning in the air. Bees were busy everywhere. And such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. ... They were bigger than hornets. The drones were bigger than your thumb, a good deal, and the band of yellow on their deep black bodies shone like fiery gold.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About the bees of Beorn.
To make one pound of clover honey, bees have to visit about ten million blossoms.Richard Dawkins
Source: Climbing Mount Improbable
Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.
When bees are old they yield no honey.
When the bee sucks, it makes honey; when the spider, poison.
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.Joseph Joubert
Where bees are there is honey.
Where there are bees, there is honey.
While honey lies in every flower, it takes a bee to get the honey out.
