“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”

“It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.”

“Wow Sugarpuss, you've certainly been a busy little bee.”

“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.”

“He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn’t do it — nobody asked him. It was not necessary for the bee to make such a merit of his tastes.”

“Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.”