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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. — Letitia Landon
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon. But a swarm in July isn't worth a fly. — A proverbial beekeepers' saying, mid 17th century
Bees are not kept for their color, but for their productivity. — Brother Adam
Before explaining some other methods of artificial swarming, which I have employed to great advantage, I shall endeavor to impress upon the mind of the bee-keeper, the great importance of thoroughly understanding each season, the precise object at which he is aiming, before he enters on the work of increasing his colonies. — L.L. Langstroth
But the bee yard, when not the scene of herculean labors, as at harvest time, is largely a place of quiet where one feels not alone but rather an integral part of the scheme of things. Solitude is not really the word for it. Communion is. One is not separated from company but only from distraction. One's thoughts and feelings are not imposed from without but elicited from within, rising in absorption with the vast surrounding nature. — Richard Taylor (The Joys of Beekeeping)
Don't assume that all bees are as calm as yours. When going to work a strange hive, assume they'll be aggressive and dress and smoke accordingly. If they turn out to be calm, you can wear less the next time. If they're crazy, you won't get stung for no good reason. Like I did yesterday. — Steve
Each season adds new thoughts, new complications, new zest, new energies, new determinations, etc., till the one great whole gives an indescribable pleasure to beekeeping not found in any other pursuit. And this pleasure can be grasped only by the one who is not turned aside by trifles. Over the door of apiculture stands written in letters of fire, ‘lazy and shiftless persons need not apply. — Gilbert Doolittle
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. — Jonathan Swift
Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise. — George Bernard Shaw
Go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and what noble work she produces; whose labor kings and private men use for their health. She is desired and honored by all, and, though weak in strength, yet since she values wisdom she prevails. — Bible (Septuagint), Proverbs 6:8
Hast thou found honey? Eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it. - Proverbs 15:16
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. — Isaac Watts
If a beekeeper tells you he knows what he's doing, be wary and keep a keen eye on this fellow, for he has already told one lie, and no doubt will tell you another. — Author Unknown
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? — Oliver St. John
If the [honey] bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live. — Falsely attributed to Albert Einstein
If the question in your mind starts "how do I make the bees..." then you are already thinking wrongly. If your question is "how can I help them with what they are trying to do..." you are on your way to becoming a beekeeper. — Michael Bush
If you're not part of the genetic solution to breeding mite-tolerant bees, then you're part of the problem. — Randy Oliver
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Abraham Lincoln
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Dale Carnegie
I have just been thinking, and I have come to a very important decision. These are the wrong sort of bees. — Winnie the Pooh.
I have established mystic contact with the spiritual core of apiculture and now, anything is possible. — Charles Martin Simon
I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human. — Sue Hubbell
I think it safest to base our assumption, that bee culture, in some respects is a hazardous business, even amongst the most thorough and careful. — A.I. Root, 1882
It is well known that improper diet makes one susceptible to disease. Now is it not reasonable to believe that extensive feeding of sugar to bees makes them more susceptible to American Foul Brood and other bee disease? It is known that American Foul Brood is more prevalent in the north than in the south. Why? Is it not because more sugar is fed to bees in the north while here in the south the bees can gather nectar most of the year which makes feeding sugar syrup unnecessary? — Jay Smith (Better Queens)
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. —
Mary Flannery O'Connor
Like the honeybee, the sage should gather wisdom from many scriptures. — Bhagavad Gita
Listen to the bees, let them guide you. — Brother Adam
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste. — Bible, Proverbs 24:13
One of the beekeeper's very first tasks must be the study of bee behaviour and the adaptation of himself if he wishes for success. — Brother Adam, Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey
Our apiculture forefathers, those great men who defined the principles of modern beekeeping: Langstroth, Dadant, Root. Why were they so extravagantly successful? The answer is simple.
Because they didn't know what they were doing. They made it up, as it were, as they went along. — Charles Martin Simon
Our time for study and preparation all along the line of bee work is during the winter months; and he who takes time by the forelock is the one the most likely to succeed. — Gilbert D oolittle
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Shall I take brood from strong colonies to give to the weaklings? Not I. For the damage to the strong colonies will more than overbalance the benefit to the weaklings. — Dr. C.C. Miller (Fifty Years Among the Bees)
So work the honey bees -- creatures that by a rule in Nature, teach the art of order to a peopled kingdom. — Shakspeare
So work with the honey bee, creatures that by a rule of nature, teach the art of order to mankind. — William Shakespeare
The bee is more honored than any other creature; not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — St. John Chrisostym, 4th century
The best environment for the bees is not agricultural, I have them there for my benefit and deal the best I can with the side effects thereof. — A comment on Bee-L
The Creator intended the bee for the comfort of man, as truly as he did the horse or the cow. The honey bee was... created not merely with the ability to store up its delicious nectar for its own use, but with certain properties which fitted it to be domesticated, and to labor for man, and without which, he would no more have been able to subject it to his control, than to make a useful beast of burden of a lion or a tiger. — Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810 – 1895), apiarist, clergyman and teacher.
The Hive and the Honeybee, 1852
The fruit of bees is desired by all, and is equally sweet to kings and beggars and it is not only pleasing but profitable and healthful; it sweetens their mouths, cures their wounds, and conveys remedies to inward ulcers. — Saint Ambrose
The habits of bees, their actions, lead many thinking people to the idea that there is a spark of God’s spirit in bees, the mind is given to them from heaven. — Virgil
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The idea that bees ‘work for nothing and board themselves’ must be banished from our thoughts…. Successful bee-keeping means work, and lots of it, for a man with brains enough to know that he must leave no stone unturned that tends toward success. — Gilbert Doolittle
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. — Henry David Thoreau
The more I studied beekeeping, the less I knew until finally I knew nothing. But even though I knew nothing, I still had plenty to unlearn. — Charles Martin Simon
The only consistent thing about bees is their inconsistency. — Dr. C.C. Miller
The only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it. — AA Milne in Winnie-the-Pooh
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson
There are a few rules of thumb that are useful guides. One is that when you are confronted with some problem in the apiary and you do not know what to do, then do nothing. Matters are seldom made worse by doing nothing and are often made much worse by inept intervention. — Richard Taylor (How to Do It Book of Beekeeping)
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. — Henry David Thoreau
The secret of my health is applying honey inside and oil outside. — Democritus (contemporary of Hippocrates, who lived to the ripe age of 109)
Tiggers don't like honey. — AA Milne in Winnie-the-Pooh
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. — Emily Dickinson
We lived for honey. We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. We took it with every meal to calm the mind, give us stamina, and prevent fatal disease. We swabbed ourselves in it to disinfect cuts or heal chapped lips. It went in our baths, our skin cream, our raspberry tea and biscuits. Nothing was safe from honey...honey was the ambrosia of the gods and the shampoo of the goddesses. ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey? — Bette Davis
When one stands before a hive of bees one should say quite solemnly to oneself: "By way of the bee-hive the whole Cosmos enters man and makes him strong and able. — Rudolph Steiner, Lecture 1 on Bees, 1923
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. — Joseph Joubert
When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. — Terrence Howard
Women make the best beekeepers cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. — Sue Monk Kidd
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