Honey Quotes - Page 25

• You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'

  Anna Gunn

  Girl, Country, Cities

  The AMC Interview, www.amc.com. 2010.

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• To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Voice, Handsome, Bread

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.50, Penguin

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• The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

  George Santayana

  Long, May, Pleasure

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Woods

  Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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• To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee flowers. Although there are very good white bee flowers - white sweet clover is the best honey plant in the world.

  Chip Taylor

  Sweet, Flower, White

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• Grocery shopping," Kira's gaze raked over him. "Well, honey, one thing about it, I don't think you have to worry about buying beef while you're out. It looks like you have plenty in residence as it is.

  Lora Leigh

  Thinking, Shopping, Worry

  Lora Leigh (2007). “Hidden Agendas”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Enlightenment is x-rated, honey; if you haven't checked it out. It's hot, it's vivacious. You're going to take your mind and merge it with the entire cosmos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Enlightenment, Hot

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• Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Order

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• Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet Honey

  1735 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

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• 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.

  Kelly Link

  Sweet, Moon, Bed

  Kelly Link (2010). “Stranger Things Happen”, p.207, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Love, Believe, Things In Life

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• Be happy, honey. No one deserves it more. But don't forget... I'm keeping one little piece of your heart for myself. And if you ever want it back.. .you know where to find it.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Pieces, Want

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• Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Stars, War

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.209, Grove Press

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• He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Class, Voice, Ducks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.115, Scholastic Inc.

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• Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties; bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Years, Cake, Sheep

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Milk And Honey, Soul, Poison

  "Selections from the writings of ʻAbduʼl-Bahá". Book by `Abdu'l-Bahá, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

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• Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...

  William Golding

  War, Men, Years

  "The Hot Gates". Book by William Golding, 1965.

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• Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

  Barbara Bretton

  Chocolate, Moderation, Motto

  Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley

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• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"

  David Letterman

  Marriage, Husband, World

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• Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Bees, Sometimes, Lost

  1842 The American Notebooks (published 1868), ch.5.

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• My mother only ever said two things. She said,'I don't know, dear.'And she said,'Can I get you a sandwich, honey?

  Bill Bryson

  Mother, Two, Sandwiches

  1989 The Lost Continent, ch.1.

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• Alas! fond child, How are thy thoughts beguil'd To hope for honey from a nest of wasps? Thou may'st as well Go seek for ease in hell, Or sprightly nectar from the mouths of asps. The world's a hive, From whence thou canst derive No good, but what thy soul's vexation brings: But case thou meet Some petty-petty sweet, Each drop is guarded with a thousand stings.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Children, Soul

  Francis Quarles, Robert Wilson (A. M.) (1839). “Emblems divine and moral”, p.17

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• In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

  Edmund Spenser

  Baby, Boys, Want

  1595 Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

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• Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Sweet, Cells

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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