Quotes from famous (and not so famous) people about honeybees :D

* "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left." - Albert Einstein

* "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

* "Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar." - Benjamin Franklin

* No bees, no honey; no work, no money. - Proverb

* "The only reason for being a bee that I know of is to make honey.... And the only reason for making honey, is so as I can eat it." - Winnie the Pooh

* "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

* "We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?" - Bette Davis

* “I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.” - Muhammad Ali

* "If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive." - Abraham Lincoln

* "The secret of my health is applying honey inside and oil outside." - Democritus (contemporary of Hippocrates, who lived to the ripe age of 109)

* "This is the story of the little bee whose sex is very hard to see. You cannot tell the he from the she but she can tell, and so can he. The busy bee is never still and has no time to take the Pill. And that is why, in times like these, there are so many sons of bees." - Unknown

* “The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others” - Saint John Chrysostom - (archbishop of Constantinople, 347-407)

* “What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.” - Rodney Dangerfield