Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Bee, from Insects for Everybody
How to Attract the Wombat (1949)
VI, 54
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
The Bee, from Insects for Everybody
How to Attract the Wombat (1949)
“I hate grate talkers; i had rather hav a swarm of bees lite onto me.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 120, first American edition (1970)
“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Hugh Plat (1552–1608) writer
Source: Diverse new Sorts of Soylenot yet brought into any publique Use, 1594, p. 30; Cited in: Malcolm Thick (1994)
“What good is it? All this, what good is it? -Mariam”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Romain Gary (1914–1980) French writer and diplomat
Introduction to The Plague (1946) by Albert Camus, as translated in a 1962 edition.
“Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.”
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Quoted in "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business", page=131.