60+ Best Honey Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Honey is a sweet, sticky, yellow substance made by bees and used as food. Profoundly inspirational honey quotes will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.

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Famous Honey Quotes

The best way to catch a bee is using its own honey. Matshona Dhliwayo

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. Saint John Chrysostom

When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive? Thomas Hood

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

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

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey. William Golding

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail. John Lyly

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

The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. Elizabeth Lawrence

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is to not let the bees know you’re coming. Winnie The Pooh

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

‘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

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

Amazing Honey Quotes

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

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

Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey. Richelle E. Goodrich

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build. Rainer Maria Rilke

The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. William Shakespeare

The busy bee has no time for sorrow. William Blake

My favorite thing is me coming to visit you, and then you ask, ‘How about a small smackerel of honey?’ Winnie The Pooh

‘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

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best. English Proverb

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

Now it’s the bee… Gees! Bees are now endangered species… Without them life won’t be sweet! Ana Claudia Antunes

Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can’t buzz any slower. Kin Hubbard

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

A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold. Matshona Dhliwayo

The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee. Emily Dickinson

When the flower blossoms, the bee will come. Srikumar Rao

It takes a bee to get the honey out. Arthur Guiterman

We may like the honey without liking the bee, but this will not be ethical! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Top Honey Quotes

Honey doesn’t lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting. Matshona Dhliwayo

Should I refuse the honey because the bee stings? Marty Rubin

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee. Letitia Elizabeth Landon

When you’re out to get the honey you don’t go killing all the bees. Joe Strummer

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

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

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

I wasn’t going to eat it. I was just gonna taste it. Winnie The Pooh

Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that. Garbine Muguruza

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. Dale Carnegie

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

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

A good bee never lands on a fallen flower. Chinese Proverb

The bee represents hard work, diligence and orderliness. Unknown

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. Charles Lamb

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert Green Ingersoll

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. Winnie The Pooh

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they’re making honey in there. Terrence Howard

Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. Proverbs 16:24

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. Ovid

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. George Santayana

The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

She is beautiful like an angel, charming like a fairy and sweet like honey. M.F. Moonzajer

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

The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blooms and the bee comes. Mark Nepo