Honey quotes

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

#Friendship #Honey #Pot

What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
-- Adam Rex

#Honey #Canada #Said

He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey / Soon, the whole hive collapses.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Peace #Doe #Honey

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
-- Alton Brown

#Hands #Honey #Bees

Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Want #Honey #Bigs

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

#Grandfather #Honey #Vinegar

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.
-- Angela Thirkell

#Loss #Would Be #Honey

I'm a fairy. I'd come and hear, "How was your day, honey?" And I'd be like, "I was a fairy. I don't know."
-- Angelina Jolie

#Honey #Fairy

Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.
-- Arthur Christiansen

#Reading #Stories #Honey

It takes a bee to get the honey out
-- Arthur Guiterman

#Honey #Bees

That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.
-- Arthur Japin

#Honey #Matter #Things That Matter

When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
-- Ava Gardner

#Honey #Temper

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.
-- Ava Gardner

#Special #Honey #Way

For the loot, honey, for the loot.
-- Ava Gardner

#Retirement #Honey

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

#Chocolate #Honey #Moderation

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Waiting #Honey #Soap

If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Mouths #Honey #Pot

And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
-- Bobby Goldsboro

#Food #Missing #Honey

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

#Nice #Honey #Vinegar

It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Order #Knives #Honey

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
-- Charles Lamb

#Sugar #Honey #Sweetness

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of life which a devout heart extracts from every bloom of providence and grace.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Heart #Grace #Honey

I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
-- Chuck Berry

#Thinking #Honey #Bus

Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day?
-- Coco Ho

#Coffee #Thinking #Honey

Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.
-- Denise Levertov

#Hair #Honey #Dropping

Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.
-- Diane Duane

#Mom #Jupiter #Honey

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.
-- Donna Reed

#Decision #Honey #Today

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#People #Honey #Jars

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?
-- Ellen Bass

#People #Looks #Honey

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.
-- Emanuel Cleaver

#Choices #Nuclear #Honey

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
-- Erin McCarthy

#Have Faith #Honey #Enjoy

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.
-- Faith Sullivan

#Writing #Disease #Honey

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
-- Fannie Flagg

#Dream #Honey #Used

The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.
-- Frances Mayes

#Looks #Landscape #Honey

I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
-- Gail Porter

#Baby #Insecurity #Honey

A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
-- George Meredith

#Kissing #Sea #Honey

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
-- George Santayana

#Long #May #Honey

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
-- Grant Morrison

#Sprinkles #Honey #Salt

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
-- Grantland Rice

#Kindness #Honey #Unkindness

...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.
-- Henry Miller

#Believe #Miracle #Honey

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
-- Herbert Gold

#Flower #Honey #Bees

Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
-- Homer

#Anger #Men #Honey

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.
-- Homer

#Speech #Honey #Tongue

It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing honey.
-- Homer

#Revenge #Honey

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
-- Hugh Elliot

#Writing #Mean #Honey

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
-- India.Arie

#Ashes #World #Honey

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
-- Isaac Watts

#Rose #Thorns #Honey

As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
-- Ivan Panin

#Talking #Mouths #Honey

Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
-- J. Lynn

#Team #Honey #Heartbeat

Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey.
-- J.R. Ward

#Thinking #Honey #Mary

Honey, I just forgot to duck.
-- Jack Dempsey

#Ducks #Boxing #Honey

Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
-- Jackson Browne

#Redneck #Honey #Introducing

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
-- James Ellis

#Book #Taken #Honey

Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
-- Janice Dickinson

#Girl #Honey #Ants

The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz... and some honey... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this.
-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Ferrari #Earth #Honey

Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley.
-- Jeremy Clarkson

#Trying #Honey #Cows

All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.
-- Jerry Lee Lewis

#Dancing #Littles #Honey

Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.
-- Jim Butcher

#Mean #Dark #Honey

When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
-- Joe Strummer

#Honey #Bees #Killing

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
-- John Burroughs

#Flower #Book #Honey

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
-- John Lyly

#Tails #Mouths #Honey

I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.
-- Jujubee

#Trout #Honey #Fishes

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
-- Kabir

#Zest #Honey #Fool

If you wanna find the honey / You can’t be scared of the bees,
-- Kacey Musgraves

#Honey #Bees #Scared

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
-- Katy Mixon

#Southern #Honey #Accents

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
-- Kent Haruf

#Honey #Maggie #Where You Are

Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.
-- Kevin Hearne

#Sweet #Honey

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

#Honey #Vinegar

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Lying #Heart #Honey

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.
-- Lauren Bacall

#Mother #Son #Honey

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
-- Laurence Olivier

#Honey #Moments #Lost

Sounds like you've got it all planned out." "Honey, I've got more plans than Wes has ugly shoes." "And that's a lot." I laugh. "It sure is," she says with a sigh.
-- Laurie Faria Stolarz

#Shoes #Laughing #Honey

You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.
-- Leslie Feinberg

#Simple #People #Honey

I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy
-- Lisa Kleypas

#Kissing #Names #Honey

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
-- Louis Adamic

#Fathers Day #Grandfather #Honey

[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.
-- Lynn Austin

#Want #Honey

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
-- Mae West

#Giving #Littles #Honey

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

#Love #People #Honey

Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.” “You’re not?
-- Maya Banks

#Sophie #Honey #Said

Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.
-- Meg Cabot

#Boys #Woods #Honey

I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.
-- Meg Cabot

#Girl #Teenage #Honey

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Nuts #Want #Honey

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
-- Miguel de Cervantes

#Honey

Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!
-- Miranda Lambert

#Thinking #Honey #Actresses

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.
-- Misty May-Treanor

#Greek #Honey #Yogurt

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!
-- Moe Howard

#Honey #Whipped Cream #Cream

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.
-- Moms Mabley

#Mom #Four #Honey

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.
-- Morgan Freeman

#People #Honey #Rich

I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
-- Natalia Tena

#New York #Sausage #Honey

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

#Honey #Bees #Sometimes

I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!
-- NeNe Leakes

#Spotlight #Honey

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!
-- NeNe Leakes

#Spiritual #Religious #Honey

Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane
-- Nicki Minaj

#School #Games #Honey

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Honey #Gravy #Train

There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.
-- Pietro Aretino

#Ears #Honey #Milk

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 #Honey #Herbs

Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.
-- Rachel Caine

#Military #Honey #Claire

Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
-- Rachel Caine

#Honey #Alive #Shane

we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Essence #Earth #Honey

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Bees #Honey #Construction