Honey Quotations | Page 3

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

When you taste honey, remember gall.

Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

Cat, you ruined mom's dress!" "Honey, it was ruined when she bought it.

I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.

Honey, I forgot to duck

Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

I said to a girl I'd been seeing, come home with me, honey, and I'll show you where it's at. She said, You'd better, because the last time I could'nt find it.

Honey, there's a spider in your bathroom the size of a Buick.

Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!

Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, OK? It'll be a year come April 20th. I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday