Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears…

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of…

— Michael Dickinson

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

— Benjamin Franklin

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

— Charlaine Harris

“It's like Eldridge Kestenbaum always says - you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." "Horse manure catches more flies than honey and…

— Gordon Korman

“Catch more flies with honey . . . although I’d never quite understood the value of the expression. Mother had used it all the…

— Yasmine Galenorn

... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

“It is not easy for Brehons to decide concerning bees that have taken up their lodging in the trees of a noble dignitary; with…

— Dorothy Dunnett

So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around…

— Ramakrishna

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Bees chase flowers.”

— Tracy L. Shreve

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

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

— Kabir

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

— Sara Sheridan