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81 " We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge. "
― Maurice Maeterlinck
82 " He did not want to fail, when the Bee Master had trusted him with the home and the possessions and the occupation that were all he had of his very own, and he did not know that as the storm drew nearer, as the clouds grew blacker, as the heat waves resolved themselves into definite flashes of lightning, as the night closed down black as velvet around him, he did not realize that his moral and mental forces were rising with the tide of the storm, that all the remnants of manhood left in his shaken body were gathering together for some sort of culmination, just as presently the storm would reach its height and then subside. "
― Gene Stratton-Porter , The Keeper of the Bees
83 " Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson. "
― John Oliver
84 " How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens. "
― Cora Carmack
85 " The bee is more honored than other animals not because she labors but because she labors for others. "
86 " The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail. "
87 " How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. "
88 " Steady as a clock busy as a bee and cheerful as a cricket. "
89 " The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower. "
90 " Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah too it has a wing. "
91 " The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy. "
92 " When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. 3. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceeding small. 4. When it is dark enough you can see the stars. "
93 " Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. "
― Robert G. Ingersoll
94 " Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. "
95 " To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few. "
96 " As the dew to the blossom the bud to the bee As the scent to the rose are those memories to me. "
97 " Physically it is impossible for a bee to fly, but because it believes it can then it can. "
― Stephen Richards
98 " The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. "
99 " A bee is never as busy as it seems it's just that it can't buzz any slower. "
