quotes about Honey
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A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
-- A. A. Milne -
What part of Canada are you from, honey?" "THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
-- Adam Rex -
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 -
So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.
-- Alton Brown -
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Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
-- Andre Leon Talley -
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
-- Andrew Cuomo -
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 ThirkellSource : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
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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 -
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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 -
It takes a bee to get the honey out
-- Arthur GuitermanSource : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
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That's the only thing that matters, honey, for someone to see more in you than you thought there was to see.
-- Arthur Japin -
When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
-- Ava GardnerSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.
-- Barbara BrettonSource : Barbara Bretton (2001). “A Soft Place to Fall”, Berkley
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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 -
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If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
-- Bobby Goldsboro -
Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.
-- Cassandra King -
It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.
-- Charles Bukowski -
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
-- Charles Lamb -
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 -
I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?
-- Chuck Berry -
Do you think I got stung because I have honey in my coffee every day?
-- Coco Ho -
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Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.
-- Denise Levertov -
Honey, have you seen your sister?†She’s on Jupiter, Mom.
-- Diane Duane -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith in the rest.
-- Erin McCarthy -
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 -
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That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
-- Fannie FlaggSource : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.250, Random House
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
-- George Santayana -
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
-- Grant Morrison -
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
-- Grantland Rice -
...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 -
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The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
-- Herbert GoldSource : Herbert Gold (1993). “Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet”
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Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
-- Homer -
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You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
-- Hugh Elliot -
In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
-- India.Arie -
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
-- Isaac WattsSource : Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7
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As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
-- Ivan Panin -
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Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
-- J. Lynn -
Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey.
-- J.R. Ward -
Honey, I just forgot to duck.
-- Jack DempseySource : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 20 Feb. 1927. Said to his wife after losing the world heavyweight boxing championship to Gene Tunney, 23 Sept. 1926. President Ronald W. Reagan joked to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck!" after John Hinckley tried to assassinate him 30 Mar. 1981.
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Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend.
-- Jackson Browne -
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Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
-- James Ellis -
Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
-- Janice Dickinson -
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 -
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 -
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All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.
-- Jerry Lee LewisSource : Song: Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On
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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 -
When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees
-- Joe Strummer -
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 -
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The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
-- John LylySource : John Lyly, George K. Hunter, David Bevington (1991). “Campaspe and Sappho and Phao: John Lyly”, p.285, Manchester University Press
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I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.
-- Jujubee -
As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
-- Kabir -
If you wanna find the honey / You can’t be scared of the bees,
-- Kacey MusgravesSource : Song: Silver Lining, Album: Same Trailer Different Park
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You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
-- Katy MixonSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
-- Kent HarufSource : FaceBook post by Kent Haruf from May 16, 2012
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You do not get more with honey than with vinegar.
-- Larry KramerSource : "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.
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The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
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 -
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
-- Laurence Olivier -
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 -
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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 FeinbergSource : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com
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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 -
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
-- Louis Adamic -
[God] wants us to work with Him, honey. Not for Him.
-- Lynn AustinSource : Lynn Austin (2011). “Wonderland Creek”, p.324, Bethany House
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Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.
-- Mae West -
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 -
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 -
Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.
-- Meg Cabot -
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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 -
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 -
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!
-- Miranda LambertSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.
-- Misty May-TreanorSource : "Olympic appetites: how 8 top athletes eat to win" by Michelle Edelbaum, www.eatingwell.com. July 10, 2012.
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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 -
[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 -
Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.
-- Morgan Freeman -
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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 -
Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!
-- NeNe Leakes -
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 LeakesSource : "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.
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Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane
-- Nicki Minaj -
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
-- Patricia Clarkson -
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 AretinoSource : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
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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 -
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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 -
Shane, honey, in Morganville, friends are the only things that keep you alive.
-- Rachel Caine -
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 -
As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build...
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -