A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of…

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

— Benjamin Franklin

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. This is regarded as probably…

— Albert Einstein

For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.

— William Shakespeare

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit…

— George Herbert

And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

— A. A. Milne

The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their…

— Charles Tennyson Turner

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

— Helen Hunt Jackson

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

— Marcus Aurelius

Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of…

— Khalil Gibran

“A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall”

— Abraham Lincoln

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Remember what Lincoln said: ‘A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”

— Anonymous

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is…

— Jonathan Swift

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

— Jonathan Swift