Quotes of Honey - somelinesforyou

“ Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 Having tried, we must hold fast the loss of a crown (Rev. 3:11); we must not let go for all the fleabitings of the present afflictions, etc. Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world; no, not for the saving of souls, though our own most precious; least of all for the bitter sweetening of a little vanishing pleasure. ”

- Roger Williams

“ If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey. ”

- Laurence Olivier

“ Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. ”

- John Bunyan

“ The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation. ”

- Ghose Aurobindo

“ The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom. ”

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

“ We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ”

- William Cooke Taylor

“ My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ”

- Louis Adamic

“ He has been called the Wizard of Ooze and a man possessed of tonsils marinated in honey. ”

- Ben Bagdikian

“ Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. ”

- Arthur Christiansen

“ When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth. ”

- Sarah Louise Delany

“ I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out that I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either. ”

- Bessie Delany

“ Honey, I thought we talked about the beret. Even Patty Hearst couldn't pull one off, and she had money and a gun. ”

- Megan Mullally

“ Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? ”

- Rupert Brooke

“ Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain. ”

- Jimmy Reed

“ So I called up my wife the other day. I said, 'Honey, I've been thinking about you, I'm getting excited.' She said, 'Who is this?!'. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ Silence of the Lambs. ”

- Jodie Foster

“ The stage is near and dear to me. ”

- Bela Lugosi

“ Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others. ”

- Noel Coward

“ You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. ”

- Howard Koch

“ I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear. ”

- Lillie Langtry

“ Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand. ”

- Ovid

“ You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means. ”

- Hugh Elliott

“ We ought to do good to others as simply and naturally as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Isn't it funny, How a bear makes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does. ”

- Winnie The Pooh

“ 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

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme! ”

- Veda Upanishads
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