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Quotes About Honey

Una vieja y exacta máxima dice que "una gota de miel caza más moscas que un galón de hiel".
~ Dale Carnegie
The land promised to them was one of incredible goodness—"flowing with milk and honey," as it is repeatedly described. But it still had to be conquered by careful, persistent, and intelligent human action, over a long period of time.
~ Dallas Willard
Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo
Nevertheless, I had recommended a diet of bull's testicles fried in honey and counselled him to find the most beautiful virgin in Egypt and take her to his marriage-bed within a year of the first flowering of her woman's moon.
~ Wilbur Smith
It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it.
~ Chris Cleave
She was whispering into it in some language that sounded like butterflies drowning in honey.
~ Chris Cleave
Visions of you vision of me Things to do things to see This's my way to cut it up You better wait a minute honey Better add it up
~ Chris Kraus
The second way out is epicureanism. It consists, while knowing the hopelessness of life, in making use meanwhile of the advantages one has, disregarding the dragon and the mice, and licking the honey in the best way, especially if there is much of it within reach.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now Suzanne takes your hand and she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey on our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look among the garbage and the flowers
~ Leonard Cohen
This secluded spot was the haunt of thousands of honey bees that zimmed all through the warm days at their business. I could sit amongst the bees for hours on end and feel happy, although why they pleased me so I cannot tell.
~ Leonora Carrington
Traditionally baklava is made by using honey - but I'm making it extra sweet and extra sticky by using golden syrup.
~ Nadiya Hussain
You're drunk. That's right I am. I'm fifty-three and I'm as wild as a Welshman with a leek up his arse. Fifty-three. Old slag Gail. What right has she to poke her nose into your shining armour? That's what you're thinking isn't it honey?
~ Jeanette Winterson
So put your costume on, honey! Ruby said. Set Harlequin free! That party monster of yours is screaming to come out. Let the monster out!
~ Tom Spanbauer
On Captain Britain) Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him.
~ Unknown
The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.
~ William Shakespeare
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
~ William Shakespeare
Respect people with honey,they must have had their fair share of bee stings
~ Unknown
Droughts especially appear to have accompanied the spirits of the dead in bee-form, and for this reason the honey offering was almost always customary in rain-magic, and the power of predicting rain was attributed to the bee.
~ Unknown
For a moment all my bees have turned to honey.
~ Lily King
For a moment all my bees have turned to honey. Page 302.
~ Lily King
They have long grown accustomed to the hum of passion at work in the walls, the bees crawling over swollen combs to cram every inch with cells, till the sheer weight of honey unconsumed shows with the ceiling's fall.
~ Unknown
We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.
~ Unknown
Kraunauer jumped in behind the wheel and started the car. It started right up, with a purr like a large cat with a throat full of honey. "All right," he said. "Where are you staying?
~ Jeff Lindsay
he saw neither teacher nor students, and was aware only of the heavenly light in the room, an orange glow from the autumnal foliage outside. the room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides