“Until you have smoked out the bees, you can't eat the honey.”
Russian Proverb
“The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter”
Proverb
“"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called”
Winnie the Pooh
“For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.”
William Shakespeare
“When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.”
Joseph Joubert
“Honey is sweet! but the bee stings”
