“A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.”
"A Busy Buzzing Bee"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)
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.
“A busy buzzing bee is a lot like me, it works and it lives in community.”
"A Busy Buzzing Bee"
A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden (2011)
“White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul
You live again in time, slender and silent.”
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“A comely olde man as busie as a bee.”
Source: Euphues and his England, P. 252.
“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 11
“I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.”
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
Variant: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Source: Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times