<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Bees - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,  Flew there on restless wing,   Seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3912]]></link><description><![CDATA[The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,  Flew there on restless wing,   Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive,  Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,   They dream their polity shall long survive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914]]></link><description><![CDATA[How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour,  And gather honey all the day   From every opening flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,  Now in a lily cup, and now   Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,    In his wandering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey-bee that wanders all day long The field, the woodland, and the garden o'er,  To gather in his fragrant winter store,   Humming in calm content his winter song,    Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,     The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips,      But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips       The single drop of sweetness closely pressed        Within the poison chalice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee;  A clover, any time, to him   Is aristocracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune;  Oh, for a bee's experience   Of clovers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3899]]></link><description><![CDATA[His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune;  Oh, for a bee's experience   Of clovers and of noon!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.  Let them sail for Porto Rique,   Far-off heats through seas to seek.    I will follow thee alone,     Thou animated torrid-zone!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet,  . . . .   Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The careful insect 'midst his works I view, Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,  With golden treasures load his little thighs,   And steer his distant journey through the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,  As fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away  I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3905]]></link><description><![CDATA[For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away  I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave,   I'le seek him in your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles  Fly swiftly there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3906]]></link><description><![CDATA["O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles  Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908]]></link><description><![CDATA[As busie as a Bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3910]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3910</guid></item></channel></rss>