where bees are, there is honey
- where bees are, there is honey
Cf. L. ubi mel, ibi apes, where there is honey, there are bees.
1616 T. DRAXE Adages 77 Where Bees are, there is honie.
1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 60 Where Bees are, there is honey. Where there are industrious persons, there is wealth, for the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
1748 M. FREEMAN Word in Season 6 Take away the Bees, and..you shall have no Honey in the Hive,..but there always will be Honey where there are Bees.
1931 P. A. TAYLOR Cape Cod Mystery ix. It’d look..like they was something afoot, bein’ as how there’s bees where’s honey.
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