
The Sarcastic Fair
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Sarcastic Fair
“208. The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
"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
“I am the bee that will make honey for all.”
Explaining the meaning of his name in his native Makonde language. AFP https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/mozambique-gears-key-vote-002759683.html
“The highest food is the vomit of bees, we know it as honey.”
“I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. There's nobody as beautiful or as powerful as me!”
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)