Sweet Honey Quotes

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honey

  1735 Poor Richard's Almanack, Jun.

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• The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

  George Herbert

  Sweet, Honey, Bees

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

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• The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sweet, Honey, Bees

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.67, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Deceit, Poison

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• Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

  Patricia Polacco

  Sweet, Book, Taken

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• When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Soul, Done

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

  Antonio Machado

  Success, Sweet, Heart

  Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sweet, Honey, Babbling

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.355, Del Rey

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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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• In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Running, Sweet, Years

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• We used to say I don't care if I never have any money As long as I have my sweet honey and a shack in the woodland Now we say I don't care if I don't have money, but it's not true We can't live without money, no, because we don't want to We want one of those and two of those, and oh that one looks neat, wrap it up Put it on my MasterCard. Put it on my Visa And I sing it now, hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it Hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it.

  Greg Brown

  Sweet, Two, Long

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• When you don't use sugar in your diet, all of the sudden fruits are really sweet. Honey is really sweet. Your taste buds change. I'm not psycho never have anything sweet, because that takes too much energy. The stress on your body just isn't worth it.

  Laird Hamilton

  Sweet, Stress, Use

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• I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Sweet, Rocks, Balance

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• To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Fear, Regret

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert. Book by Anne Bronte, 1848.

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