“A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.”
Dawud Wharnsby (1972) Canadian musician
"A Busy Buzzing Bee"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)
“Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They jest can't buzz any slower.”
As quoted in Reading I've Liked : A Personal Selection Drawn from Two Decades of Reading (1941) by Clifton Fadiman, p. 827.
Variants:
A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
As quoted in The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967) by Ralph Louis Woods, p. 17
The bee isn't really that busy — it just can't buzz any slower.
As quoted in Peter's People (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 29.
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