Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. There's nobody as beautiful or as powerful as me!”
Billy Graham (wrestler) (1943–2023) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
“208. The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
Variant: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Source: Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering.And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line,
Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.</p
Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman
The Pageant of Life (1964), On Anger
