Honey quotes
225 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings."
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time."
"Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost."
"Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey."
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"The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting."
"Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living."
"Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences."
"Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you."
"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."
"The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness."
"No honey for me, if it comes with a bee."
"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."
"When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place."
"If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth."
"Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel."
"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"
"The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness."
"The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know."
"As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build."
"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
"Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting."
"So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash."
"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."
"It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey."
