1.
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
William Shakespeare
2.
The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where,
housed beside their might honey-comb,
They dream their polity shall long survive.
Charles Tennyson Turner
3.
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice Maeterlinck
5.
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.
A. A. Milne
6.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift