Busy Bee Quotes

• So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

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  Desiderius Erasmus

  Garden   Light   Literature  

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.33, University of Toronto Press

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• What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

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  Marcus Aurelius

  Freedom   Bees And Honey   Honey Bee  

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1928). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself”

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• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

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  William Blake

  Time   Sorrow   Bees  

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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  Emily Dickinson

  Tragedy   Literature   Bees  

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

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  Catherine O'Hara

  Busy   Busy Bee  

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• How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!

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  Isaac Watts

  Flower   Shining   Littles  

  Divine Songs for Children "Against Idleness and Mischief " l. 1 (1715) See Carroll 5

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• A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

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  Kin Hubbard

  Work   Buzz   Bees  

  "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Louis Woods, 1967.

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• Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

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  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational   Motivational   Positive  

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• The revery alone will do If bees are few.

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  Emily Dickinson

  Dream   Bees   Pollination  

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

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  Muhammad Ali

  Strength   Sports   Inspiration  

  Twitter post from Nov 24, 2014

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• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

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  Edmund White

  Atheist   Dark   Night  

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• If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

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  George Ade

  Work   Mean   Destiny  

  George Ade (1904). “True bills”

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• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, -

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  Emily Dickinson

  Bees   Pollination   Clovers  

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.522, Harvard University Press

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