“208. The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.”

“Her mouth is a honey-blossom,
No doubt, as the poet sings;
But within her lips, the petals,
Lurks a cruel bee that stings.”

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) author, critic and playwright from the United States

“Is it sweet, your sting?”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

“I am the bee that will make honey for all.”

Filipe Nyusi (1959) Mozambican politician

“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) Spanish poet

“The highest food is the vomit of bees, we know it as honey.”

Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic

“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”

Mark Twain book 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

“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco

“Bees. They don't know they've even got a fuckin' sting. It's like buzzes, it's a twat with a shotgun!”

Lee Evans (1964) English stand-up comedian and actor