Quotes & Sayings About Honey And Vinegar

Daemon: Ever hear the saying you catch more lions with honey than vinegar?
Katy: I think it's 'catch more bees' and not lions.
Daemon: Whatever. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

oxymel, a honey and vinegar drink used for the treatment of fever, pain, or whatever else the peddler thinks they need to say to sell the swill. Now that was just sad. — C.A.A. Allen

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar. — Larry Kramer

Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. — Benjamin Franklin

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? — Andrew Cuomo

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter. — Jerry Lewis

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. — Langston Hughes

Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

"Yes, they would," Pyotr said mysteriously. He had been walking a couple of steps ahead of Kate, but now he dropped back and, without any warning, slung an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to his side. "But why you would want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl. — Anne Tyler

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. — Charlaine Harris

the question is not whether more flies can be caught with honey than with vinegar, but why the flies are being caught in either case - and how this feels to the fly. — Alfie Kohn

There's lots of sticky things here," he said. "I see blackstrap molasses, wild clover honey, corn syrup, aged balsamic vinegar, apple butter, strawberry jam, caramel sauce, maple syrup, butterscotch topping, maraschino liqueur, virgin and extra-virgin olive oil, lemon curd, dried apricots, mango chutney, crema di noci, tamarind paste, hot mustard, marshmallows, creamed corn, peanut butter, grape preserves, salt water taffy, condensed milk, pumpkin pie filling, and glue. — Lemony Snicket

It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar. — Mindy McGinnis

Shahrzad paused. Then made a decision. Honey catches more flies than vinegar. — Renee Ahdieh

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar. — Saint Francis De Sales

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar. — Henry IV Of France

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more flies with corpses. Flies aren't too picky, when you come to it. — Thomm Quackenbush

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you'll catch more flies, if nothing else. — Cassandra King

They're being controlled," Dax says to Daphne.
"Very astute," Simon says. "All it takes is a please most times. You know what they say: you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar."
"Why would I want to catch flies?" I ask.
Simon raises his eyebrows. "Seriously? That's the part of all this you question? — Bree Despain

Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar. — Edmond Rostand

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

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance. — Mary J. Blige

Licorice steeped in vinegar, with honey and cloves. It will give you some strength and clear your head. — George R R Martin

Take 3 ~ 4 times in one day, the mixture of one tablespoon of honey, 2 tablespoon of organic apple cider vinegar and 8 ounces of water. — Sonia

Ox Cart Man

In October of the year,
he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,
counting the seed, counting
the cellar's portion out,
and bags the rest on the cart's floor.

He packs wool sheared in April, honey
in combs, linen, leather
tanned from deerhide,
and vinegar in a barrel
hoped by hand at the forge's fire.

He walks by his ox's head, ten days
to Portsmouth Market, and sells potatoes,
and the bag that carried potatoes,
flaxseed, birch brooms, maple sugar, goose
feathers, yarn.

When the cart is empty he sells the cart.
When the cart is sold he sells the ox,
harness and yoke, and walks
home, his pockets heavy
with the year's coin for salt and taxes,

and at home by fire's light in November cold
stitches new harness
for next year's ox in the barn,
and carves the yoke, and saws planks
building the cart again. — Donald Hall

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey ... Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul ... Love says, You are right, but don't claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite. — Rumi

Apple cider vinegar and honey has been ingested for years as a mixture. It helps with aging, with detoxification and as a natural healer. — Donna Langely

Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
But what if I don't want to catch the flies? What if I'd rather see them swatted? — Mindy McGinnis