A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
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.
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.