Honey is sweet! but the bee stings


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The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
GEORGE HERBERT
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Her mouth is a honey-blossom,No doubt, as the poet sings;But within her lips, the petals,Lurks a cru...
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
To a lesser extent (they like) the whites and reds, but blues, yellows and oranges are the main bee ...
CHIP TAYLOR
Honey is sweet but bees sting.
FRENCH PROVERB
A universal law: Once a honey bee stings, it dies. In the same way when you try to harm others, part...
DR NIRVADHA SINGH
We're all busy little bees, full of stings, making honey day and night, aren't we honey?
BETTE DAVIS
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caug...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Bees that have honey in their nostrils have stings in their tails
PROVERB
You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.
ALBERT H. FITZ
It takes a bee to get the honey out
ARTHUR GUITERMAN
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING
Then a couple years later, I was in a tournament and a bee comes over on my hand and stings me out o...
MICHELLE WIE
It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee
MUNIA KHAN
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
LETITIA LANDON
The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter
PROVERB
Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
Don’t run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet ho...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON
The Pedigree of Honey/ Does not concern the Bee --/ A Clover, any time, to him,/ Is Aristocracy --
EMILY DICKINSON
All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting
ITALIAN PROVERB
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were...
ANTONIO MACHADO
When the dog bites, when the bee stings When I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things, ...
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
ANNE BRADSTREET
Though honey is sweet, do not lick it off a briar
IRISH SAYINGS
Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
OLD SONG
Love, in my bosom, like a bee, / Doth suck his sweet.
THOMAS LODGE
If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN
How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day Fro...
ISAAC WATTS
And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.
HOPE MIRRLEES
He didn’t at all see why the busy bee should be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee li...
CHARLES DICKENS
"That buzzing-noise means something. If there's a buzzing noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, ...
WINNIE THE POOH
You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.
RAYMOND E. FEIST
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON
A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel.
GREEK PROVERB
So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see; So blit...
NORA PERRY
My your heart never be bitter as dandelion greens but let it be sweet as honey and flow from your ac...
STARGAZER
Instead of dust and poison, we have rather chosen honey and wax, thus furnishing positivity to be sw...
LILY CHATTERJEE
You ask for lively epigrams, and propose lifeless subjects. What can I do, Caecilianus? You expec...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL
It stings. It stings bad.
DAVIN JOSEPH
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
The bee is domesticated but not tamed.
WILLIAM LONGGOOD
Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, And either live with glorious victorie, Or die with fame ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, ...
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER
As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play...
NANCY LUBLIN
Love is like a flavoured candy of our life that we always wanted. Without it, life won't be as sweet...
BRADLEY B. DALINA
Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All su...
BANKSY
The world's a nettle. Disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON
"O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles F...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON (HELEN HUNT)
sex is simple, love stings afterwards.
WOODY ALLEN
Love drips like honey from the hive, constant, sweet, precious, into your heart each and every momen...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, ...
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
It stings. I'm in shock.
ANGELA RUGGIERO
That sort of thing stings.
BOB COOLEN
PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... Hi...
OSCAR WILDE
All day in the green sunny orchard When May was a marvel of bloom, I followed the busy bee-lov...
MARGARET E. SANGSTER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grape...
MARCUS AURELIUS
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.
JOSHUA CALEB
Nothing but Money,Is sweeter than Honey
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A bee gathers from the same type of sources a bug does. But a bee works the inner transformation wit...
JONATHAN CHEN
Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
H. L. MENCKEN
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
H. L. MENCKEN
It was not honey but the antibiotics in honey that cured his chronic cough.
DR HITESH C SHETH
If you're struggling with that sweet tooth, try making healthy sugar swaps using things like hon...
ELLA WOODWARD
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it g...
MARY KAY ASH
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb."

"But it's true. What do they...
RICK RIORDAN
Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out
YIDDISH PROVERB
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should alwa...
EDWARD YOUNG
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it...
MARY KAY ASH
Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE)
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER
The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.
AMIT KALANTRI
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
GEORGE HERBERT
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the b...
SUZY KASSEM
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is th...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

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