Honey Quotes

• Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Add, Humans, Human Beings

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• The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Flower, Bees, Sweetness

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• Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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• The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Humble, Intelligence

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• If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mouths, Pot, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Turn all things to honey; this is the law of divine living.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Law, Optimism, Divine

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pounds, Bees, Enough

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• Life is a flower of which love is honey.

  Victor Hugo

  Flower, Love Life, Love Is

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• I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

  Lucy Stone

  Summer, Trying, Phases Of Life

  Lucy Stone, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Carol Lasser, Marlene Merrill (1987). “Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93”, p.147, University of Illinois Press

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• I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

  Fats Domino

  Relationship, Love You, Use

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• In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

  India.Arie

  Milk And Honey, Ashes, World

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• The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Bees, Poor Richard

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton, Barnabas Oley (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.255

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• A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Pot, Winnie The Pooh Friend

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• Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Hope, Nature

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4655, Library of Alexandria

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• If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Leadership, Work

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh. "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.

  A. A. Milne

  Tea, Piglet, Today

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• The sweetest honey
  Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Appetite, Sweetest

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.149, Classic Books Company

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• This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Children, Adults

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• Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

  Plato

  Wise, Herbs, Bees

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• The taste of things recovered is the sweetest honey we will ever know.

  Paulo Coelho

  Taste, Sweetest, Knows

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• A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Catching Fire, Vinegar

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.117, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

  Grantland Rice

  Kindness, Mean People, Unkindness

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• Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dew, Slumber

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 230

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• When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Business, Ambition

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

  Sarah Fielding

  Inspirational, Kindness, Healing

  Sarah Fielding (2015). “The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last”, p.339, University Press of Kentucky

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