Western Honey Bees

Famous quotes containing the words western, honey and/or bees:

    In everyone’s youthful dreams, philosophy is still vaguely but inseparably, and with singular truth, associated with the East, nor do after years discover its local habitation in the Western world. In comparison with the philosophers of the East, we may say that modern Europe has yet given birth to none.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Y’know the trouble with us is, we’ve both got the same disease—money, and happy ways of spending it.
    Mark Hanna, and Nathan Hertz. Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers)

    Asking to die:
    “To die, dear God, before a scum of doubt
    Smear the whole universe, and smudge it out.”
    Meanwhile the bees fumbled among the flowers.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)