The Best 100 Honey Quotes All About The Golden Gift From The Gods

A honey bee collects nectar every day from flowers with its mouth and stores it in a sac.

Honey bee later combines this nectar with its enzymes to form honey. Honey bees store this honey in structures called honeycombs.

We have put together some best honey quotes and sayings for your enjoyment. If you like such quotes, also check bear quotes and bee quotes.

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Sweet As Honey Quotes

Honey gets its sweetness because of the various natural sugars in it. Honey is as sweet as table sugar and is considered healthier than it. Below we have listed some sweeter than honey quotes to increase your knowledge of honey.

1."As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build."

-Rainer Maria Rilke.

2."Honey doesn't lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

3."Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body."

-Proverbs 16:24.

4."She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey."

-M.F. Moonzajer.

5."The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey."

-George Santayana.

6."Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet!"

-Ana Claudia Antunes.

7."The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite."

-William Shakespeare.

8."Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it."

-John Muir.

9."Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey."

-Ovid.

10."No bees, no honey; no work, no money."

-Proverb.

11."Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that."

-Garbine Muguruza.

12."'O bees, sweet bees!' I said; 'that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.'"

-Helen Hunt Jackson.

13."I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet."

-Trudie Styler.

14."The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom."

-Laura Ingalls Wilder.

15."Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best."

-English Proverb.

16."To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness."

-Charles Lamb.

17."Honey is sweet, and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book."

-Patricia Polacco.

18."When the flower blossoms, the bee will come."

-Srikumar Rao.

19."The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Bee And Honey Quotes

Bees play a vital role in the formation of honey. Bee quotes and sayings about honey and bees listed below throw some light on bees' importance in our life.

20."The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

21."It takes a bee to get the honey out."

-Arthur Guiterman.

22."A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee."

-Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

23."Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise/Their Master's flower, but leave it having done/As fair as ever and as fit to use/So both the flower doth stay and honey run."

-George Herbert.

24."The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail."

-John Lyly.

25."Should I refuse the honey because the bee stings?"

-Marty Rubin.

26."The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others."

-Saint John Chrysostom.

27."The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them."

-Saint Francis de Sales.

28."It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee."

-Munia Khan.

29."Man produces evil as a bee produces honey."

-William Golding.

30."The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey."

-Curtis Tyrone Jones.

31."If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

-Dale Carnegie.

32."Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers."

-John Keats.

33."Despite its lack of size, the bee makes fine honey."

-Einhard.

34."We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die."

-Muriel Barbery.

35."Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."

-Robert Green Ingersoll.

36."When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there."

-Terrence Howard.

37."A work of art; and yet no art of man, Can work, this work, these little creatures can."

-Geffrey Whitney.

38."The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same? "

-Thomas Chandler Haliburton.

39."We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical!"

-Mehmet Murat Ildan.

40."For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."

-William Shakespeare.

41."When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?"

-Thomas Hood.

42."A good bee never lands on a fallen flower."

-Chinese Proverb.

43."The bee represents hard work, diligence and orderliness."

-Unknown.*

44."As the producer of honey, the bee also symbolizes sweetness and benevolence."

-Unknown.*

45."That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."

- Marcus Aurelius.

46."The best way to catch a bee is using its own honey."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

47."The hum of bees is the voice of the garden."

-Elizabeth Lawrence.

48."The busy bee has no time for sorrow."

-William Blake.

49."When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees."

-Joe Strummer.

50."Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower."

-Kin Hubbard.

51."The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blooms and the bee comes."

-Mark Nepo.

52."The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee."

–Emily Dickinson.

'Winnie The Pooh' Honey Quotes

'Winnie The Pooh' is an animation series loved by children. In this series, Pooh, who is a bear, loves honey a lot. Some funniest honey quotes from the series have been listed here for your entertainment.

53."I wasn't going to eat it. I was just gonna taste it."

-'Winnie The Pooh.'

54."When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is to not let the bees know you're coming."

-'Winnie The Pooh.'

55."The only reason for being a bee is to make honey. And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it."

-'Winnie The Pooh.'

56."'I don't feel very much like Pooh today,' said Pooh. 'There there,' said Piglet. 'I'll bring you tea and honey until you do.'"

-A. A. Milne.

57."A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."

-Winnie The Pooh.

58."My favorite thing is me coming to visit you, and then you ask, 'How about a small smackerel of honey?'"

-Winnie The Pooh.

Famous Honey Quotes

Nowadays, honey is used as a substitute for sugar by many health-conscious people. Some apples and honey quotes and 'a spoonful of honey' quotes listed here will show you the benefits of eating honey. We have also listed some love and honey quotes to enjoy.

59."Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey."

-Richelle E. Goodrich.

60."A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

61."Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings."

-Francis Quarles.

62."The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy."

-Emily Dickinson.

63."If you are feeling low and lethargic in the morning, instead of reaching out for a can of carbonated energy drink, try honey."

-Unknown.*

64."Next time before you go for a workout, take a spoon of honey to enable you to go for the extra mile."

-Unknown.*

65."I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk."

-Mark Hoppus.

66."Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

-Victor Hugo.

67."If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"

-Oliver St. John.

68."The glob of precious honey that I had poured into my mouth at Ace's was the life's work of hundreds of bees, a unique floral ode collected from thousands of blossoms in a poetic foraging ritual..."

-Holley Bishop.

69."Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than Gallon of Vinegar."

-Benjamin Franklin.

70."Every saint has a bee in his halo."

-David Foster Wallace.

71."Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food."

-Rudolf Steiner.

72."It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter."

-Friedrich Nietzsche.

73."It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey."

-Sue Monk Kidd.

74."As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so, should the sage wander in the village."

-Budha.

75."The Honey is sweet, but the bee has a Sting."

-Benjamin Franklin.

76."He is not worthy of the honey-comb/That shuns the hives because the bees have stings."

-William Shakespeare.

77."A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen."

-Unknown.*

78."Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work."

-Unknown.*

79."As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth."

-Kabir.

80."How doth the little busy bee, improve each shining hour, and gather honey all the day, from every opening flower."

-Isaac Watts.

81."Listen to the bees and let them guide you."

-Brother Adam.

82."I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey."

–Henry Rollins.

83."It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet."

-Joseph Hall.

84."For optimal sleep and recovery cycle at night, try a spoonful of honey before sleep on a daily basis."

-Unknown.*

85."Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope."

-Christy Lefteri.

86."When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."

–Ramakrishna.

87."Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost."

-Teresa Of Avila.

88."Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and it's moisturizing."

-Jessica Pare.

89."If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth."

-Benjamin Franklin.

90."When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back."

-Robert Jordan.

91."No honey for me, if it comes with a bee."

-Sappho.

92."Each honey bee colony has a unique odor for member's identification."

-Unknown.*

93."Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers."

-Ray Bradbury.

94."A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey."

-Unknown.*

95."Everyone should have two or three hives of bees."

– Sue Hubbell.

96."For bees, the flower is the fountain of life/For flowers, the bee is the messenger of love."

-Kahlil Gibran.

97."Love is like honey; you cannot share it without getting some on your heart's fingers."

-Matshona Dhliwayo.

98."It's not realistic to say never eat sugar, but I try to limit my sugar as much as I can to buckwheat honey and dark chocolate, which I love."

-Mary Helen Bowers.

99."Some people go to honeymoon, others like honey. As far I can tell you I like to eat honey!"

-Deyth Banger.

100."All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord."

-Ignatius of Loyola.

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Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for honey quotes, then why not take a look at bee movie quotes or bittersweet quotes.

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