Who wouldn’t lick his fingers when they have been dipped in honey? — Greek Proverbs
Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" ) — Patricia Polacco
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. — Kabir
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. — Louis Adamic
This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! — Redd Foxx
Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma. — Aldous Huxley
Honey Image Quotes
We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
I Love You Honey Quotes
I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money. — Fats Domino
You're lookin' so good in what's left of those blue jeans
Drip of honey on the money maker gotta be
The best buzz I'm ever gonna find
Hey, I'm a little drunk on you
And high on summertime — Luke Bryan
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced. — Anais Nin
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
There's a lot of women out there, some of whom are my age who've never been married and some who have been married and would like to be married again but think their ship has sailed, and I'm like, 'Oh no, honey, let Miss Niecy show you it is never too late for love!' — Niecy Nash
Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise. — Catherine Anderson
I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite. — Rumi
I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things / Like / My cousin comes to visit and you know he's from the South /'Cause every word he says just kind of slides out of his mouth / I like the way he whistles and I like the way he walks / But honey, let me tell you that I love the way he talks. — Eloise Greenfield
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. — Lynn Redgrave
My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life. — Angela Kinsey
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good.
And I'd love to be with you if only I could. — Bobby Goldsboro
Sweet Like Honey Quotes
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. — Amy Lowell
To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world. — Chip Taylor
Dripping rain like golden honey-
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder — Jean Toomer
How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature. — Henry David Thoreau
Home sweet home. No place like home. Take me home, country roads. Home is where the heart is. But my heart is here. So I must be home. Clare sighs, turns her head, and is quiet. Hi, honey. I'm home. I'm home. — Audrey Niffenegger
Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet. — Germaine Greer
I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye. — Ann Aguirre
Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet. — George R. R. Martin
Winnie The Pooh Honey Quotes
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside. — A. A. Milne
I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh. "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do. — A. A. Milne
And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it. — A. A. Milne
Sometimes at drive-thrus I go into Winnie the Pooh and ask for a jar of honey. — Jim Cummings
I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and that's not a bad outlook. — Jim Cummings
I would do Winnie the Pooh. We would live in the tree house. We would hunt for honey. — Jerusha Hess
Honey Bee Quotes
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. — William Shakespeare
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. — Charles Tennyson Turner
Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person
accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions. — Mahatma Gandhi
This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost. — Teresa of Avila
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook. — John Burroughs
If all the bees made honey, there would be enough for even gypsies to eat — Greek Proverbs
As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. — Buddha
Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences. — Plato
Bees And Honey Quotes
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian. — Thomas Brooks
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Antonio Machado
I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. — John Burroughs
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck
If you are an ardent reader, seek not brilliant and erudite texts; otherwise the demon of haughtiness will strike your heart. But like a wise bee that gathers honey from flowers, so also through your reading obtain healing for your soul. — Ephrem the Syrian
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die. — Muriel Barbery
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build. — Rainer Maria Rilke
The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. — Michel de Montaigne
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. — Alton Brown
Sweet Honey Quotes
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit. — Anthony of Padua
She was indeed a girl of exquisite beauty. She was one of those languid women made of dark honey smooth and sweet and terribly sticky. — Patrick Süskind
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 — Sivananda
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. — Homer
Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring! — Ruben Dario
All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord. — Ignatius of Loyola
To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet. — Pablo Neruda
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. — Jonathan Swift
In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
Milk And Honey Quotes
blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing. — Ursula Curtiss
Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch. — Pietro Aretino
Jerusalem the Golden,
With milk and honey blest,
eneath thy contemplation
Sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale
O happy, golden age!
Not for that rivers ran
With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees — Torquato Tasso
Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments. — Benjamin Graham
Any land will flow with milk and honey if it is worked with honest hands! — Rudolfo Anaya
I like to get Honey Combs, and Apple Jax, and Captain Crunch Berries and mix them all together, but I'm freak and I use water instead of milk. — Mark Hoppus
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey? — Oliver St. John
The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money. — Bob Dylan
Hive Quotes
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, - — Emily Dickinson
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. — Jean Cocteau
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward. — Veronica Roth
I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous. — James Patterson
You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill. — John Taylor Gatto
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. — Charles Caleb Colton
The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze. — John Updike
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. — George Lucas
Bumble Bee Quotes
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. — Ashley Smith
It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur. — Meridel Le Sueur
Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear... — Emily Dickinson
I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden. — Winifred Holtby
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. — Mason Cooley
My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm! — Chloe Bridges
'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind. — Hortense Calisher
Beehive Quotes
The earth is a beehive, we all enter by the same door. — African Proverbs
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. — Charles Darwin
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue. — George Saunders
You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got. — Elvis Presley
Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is. — Joe Rogan
When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there. — Terrence Howard
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude. — Rob Sheffield
China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'. — Rahul Gandhi
It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it. — Leonard Cohen
We are thinking about bad only those who are worse than we are, and those who are better than us ... I'm just not up to us ... One does not follow it than smell roses. Another of the bitter herbs will produce honey. Give bread to one - will remember forever. Another life donation - do not understand. — Omar Khayyam
But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow? — Lauren Oliver
Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue.
It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me,
But just in case I own more condoms than TLC. — Phife Dawg
If fructose sounds dangerous, it can be, but only in fast and large doses. For most of human evolution the only big, rapidly digestible source of fructose that our ancestors could acquire was honey. — Daniel Lieberman
Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse. — Thom Yorke
You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter. — Jerry Lewis
The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their might honey-comb,
They dream their polity shall long survive.
Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive
The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist.
For man it is to know that & to wonder at it. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood. — Nicholas Culpeper
When the sea turned into honey, the poor lost his spoon. — Bulgarian Proverbs
I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Loving is a journey with water and with stars, with smothered air and abrupt storms of flour: loving is a clash of lightning-bolts and two bodies defeated by a single drop of honey. — Pablo Neruda
You know about fixing cars, you're athletic, and you know when to shut up." "That last one isn't a skill." "Honey, trust me. It's a skill. — Simone Elkeles
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. — Grantland Rice
Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position. — Shelley Moore Capito
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living. — Sri Aurobindo
I remember when I couldn't afford to eat like this. It was ramen noodles and the San Francisco Treat [Rice-A-Roni]. Dessert? Get you a honey bun and put a slice of cheese on it. Put it in the microwave for 45 seconds and you had the gift of a lifetime. — Sayings
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