Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey. — Ovid
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit. — Anthony of Padua
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. — Anne Bradstreet
In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey — India.Arie
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
Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo
Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living. — Sri Aurobindo
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar. — Saint Francis de Sales
If your friend is honey, don’t lick him. — Moroccan Proverbs
Even if a friend is honey, don’t lick them all up. — Arabic Proverbs
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar. — Henry IV of France
For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know. — Nikki Grimes
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! — Johann Sebastian Bach
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. — Robert Green Ingersoll
If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet. — Jung Chang
Sweet Honey Image Quotes
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Winnie The Pooh Quotes
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. — A. A. Milne
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A. A. Milne
We enjoy life's garden. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen. — A. A. Milne
Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. — A. A. Milne
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A. A. Milne
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered. — A. A. Milne
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it." — A. A. Milne
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this. — A. A. Milne
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. — A. A. Milne
Sweeter Than Honey Quotes
If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do. — Xenophanes
It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey. — Homer
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand — Ovid
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey. — Homer
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. — Homer
From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. — Homer
Whoever said revenge is sweet never tasted the yumminess of forgetaboutit.
To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven. — Charles Spurgeon
Honey Quotes
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men. — Sojourner Truth
Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people. — Morgan Freeman
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. — Dale Carnegie
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
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. — Bayard Taylor
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet
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
For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. — William Shakespeare
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
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
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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
Bees And Honey Quotes
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
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
Honey Bee Quotes
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. — Kabir
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
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees — Joe Strummer
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. — Ernest A. Fortin
It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey. — Sue Monk Kidd
The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end. — George R. R. Martin
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
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
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. — Anne Bronte
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
Dripping rain like golden honey-
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder — Jean Toomer
Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that. — Sylvia Plath
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
In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers. — Pindar
May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love. — Francis of Assisi
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. — Charles Lamb
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance. — Bernice Johnson Reagon
When you don't use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I'm not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn't worth it. — Laird Hamilton
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. — Helen Hunt Jackson
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. — John Ruskin
In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed. — Bob Dylan
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. — Ghose Aurobindo
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
As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience. — Saint Basil
I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros. — Hilda Doolittle
The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. — Joseph Simmons
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one? — Annie Proulx
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
For the rest, Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. — Jonathan Swift
As the warm Gulf washed over my naked head, I realized that it held the best and the worst of us. It was the greed and recklessness that led to the drilling explosion. It was all the lies that got told before and after. It was the honey in the water that made it sweet, it was the oil that made it sick. — Eve Ensler
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees
that burned with sweetness or maddened
the sting: the struggle continues,
the journeys go and come between honey and pain.
No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net.
They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river.
Sleep doesn't divide life into halves,
or action, or silence, or honor:
life is like a stone, a single motion,
a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves,
an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal
that climbs or descends burning in your bones. — Pablo Neruda
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
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