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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.

— John Burroughs

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

— Peter Fonda

People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.

— Karl Pilkington

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

— Joseph Joubert

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

— Henry Rollins

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

— Ramakrishna

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

— Oliver St. John

In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.

— Casper Van Dien

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Marcus Aurelius

✗Opposing Perspectives

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