“208. The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The highest food is the vomit of bees, we know it as honey.”
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Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic 1058–1111Related quotes
“I am the bee that will make honey for all.”
Filipe Nyusi (1959) Mozambican politician
Explaining the meaning of his name in his native Makonde language. AFP https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/mozambique-gears-key-vote-002759683.html
“Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco
Source: Report to Greco
“959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.”
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Nature, p. 110
Collected Poems (1993)
“It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
