Quotes with honey

  • Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
  • Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
  • Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
  • Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
+4

Quotes 1 till 20 of 26.

1 2 Next 
  • Benjamin Franklin A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
    +2
  • Abraham Lincoln ''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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
    +1
  • George Meredith A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
    - +
     0
  • Carl von Clausewitz An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Gibbons Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Christiansen Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Burt Shavitz I realized I had it made because you don't have to destroy anything to get honey. You can just use the same things over and over again, put it in a quart canning jar, and you've got $12.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
    - +
     0
  • A. N. Wilson If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
    - +
     0
  • Dale Carnegie If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Ehrenreich Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
    - +
     0
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon 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
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Graham 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.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
    - +
     0
  • Victor Hugo Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Victor Hugo Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
    - +
     0
  • Lady Blessington Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
    - +
     0
  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • A. A. Milne Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
    Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Ch. 3
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
    - +
     0
  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Source: Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
    - +
     0
  • Bee Wilson Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
    - +
     0
  • Rupert Brooke Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
    - +
     0
1 2 Next 
All honey famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com