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Quotes About Honey

He was copper and shadow, honey and menace,
~ Laini Taylor
I'll love thee as the bee the flower In which the fragrant honey lies, As nightingales the evening hour, And as the star adores the skies. A guardian-angel, I'll watch o'er Thy soul, and every harm repel; But in return I still implore, Oh, love me truly,—love me well.
~ E. Gola, "Aime moi bien," 1838
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
~ Scottish Proverb
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
~ A.A. Milne
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
~ Jack Vance
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom is sweet to the soul as honey is sweet to taste.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The best way to catch a bee is using its own honey.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
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
I make a honey, egg white, and lemon face mask. It helps to reduce the appearance of sun spots and pimples; plus, it's so nutritious and natural, what could be better!
~ Devon Windsor
The almond, the first fruit to flower round the Mediterranean, heralds the arrival of spring. It is also an early nectar for the honey bees.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Art is the stored honey of the human soul.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Every twinkling of light is light; every drop of water is water; every spark of fire is fire; every drop of honey is honey. So every drop of grace is grace;
~ Thomas Brooks
My favorite bar in New York City is called Milk and Honey, a great cocktail bar.
~ Chris Thile
Without the queen excluder, the queen might suddenly fly off in search of a new hive, taking her swarm with her. That was what had happened in Brazil in 1957 after scientists bred Africanized honey bees, aka killer bees, thinking they would thrive in the tropical conditions. A visiting beekeeper, believing the queen excluders were hindering the movement of the bees inside the hives, removed them, and twenty-six queens as well as their swarms escaped, traveling north, eventually reaching the US.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Honey is also one of the most manipulated and lied-about foods on the planet. A lot of commercial honey is actually honey mixed with flavored corn syrup. You have to be careful where you buy.
~ Nicholas Sparks
honey, ain't never been wrong yet you better get back to the city cause you one of them technical niggers and you'll have problems here
~ Nikki Giovanni
This is your last chance, honey," Brandy says, and her blood is getting all over the place. She says, "Do you love me?" It's when folks ask questions like this that you lose the spotlight.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon
~ Vladimir Nabokov
That's my girl," he murmured. "I'm not your girl." "Well," he said not bothering to hide his smile from her sightless eyes, "the good news is that the honey gave you back your sparkling personality." "And the bad news?" "The honey gave you back your sparkling personality.
~ Larissa Ione
Sometimes life gives honey and other times, stings; Sometimes we need roots and other times, wings.
~ Terri Guillemets, "All," 1996
Nathless I'll drive me to thy deepest sweet, Yea, richlier shall that pain the pollen beat From me to thee, for oft these pollens be Fine dust from wars that poets wage for thee. But, O beloved Earthbloom soft a-shine Upon the universal Jessamine... Yield, yield the heartsome honey love to me Hid in thy nectary!
~ Sidney Lanier, "The Bee," 1877
The pollen-dusted bees Search for the honey-lees That linger in the last flowers of September, While plaintive mourning doves Coo sadly to their loves Of the dead summer they so well remember.
~ George Arnold, "September"