You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar


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You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
FRENCH PROVERB
You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
ANDREW CUOMO
Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar
PROVERB
You can not get honey from flies
VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU
A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
RICK KAPLAN
Time flies and we walk thats the reason we never catch up with time.
NOMAN QAYYUM
I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?
DEYTH BANGER
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.
KATY MIXON
Our fly fishing show is different than most because it is all hands-on. If you want to tie flies we ...
ALLEN FORSHAGE
The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
IVANN RODRIGUEZ
An eagle does not catch flies.
PROVERB
The eagle does not catch flies
PROVERB
You can steal more with a briefcase than you can with a gun,
ROY BARNES
I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate the...
TIM HARDAWAY
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
SAINT JEROME
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME
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JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face
SHERRY ARGOV
They were like flies to honey last year; they were just drooling over that rod. We could have had Pa...
JIM SMITHAM
Shut your mouth and you'll catch no flies
PROVERB
Time is with you... but as for the crime in that time... I am ain't fucking sure.
DEYTH BANGER
After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.
MARTHA HALL KELLY
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it.
RUSSIAN PROVERB
I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
JESSICA ALBA
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JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
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DEREK LOOMIS
What kind of tea do you want?"
"There´s more than one kind of tea?...What do you have?"
"...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
Pussy is sweeter than honey and more valuable than money.
MARY B. MORRISON
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AESOP
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the fl...
STEPHANIE BEACHAM
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
There are more African-American men with suspended licenses than valid licenses,
GWEN MOORE
You can get more with a nice word and a gun than you can with a nice word.
AL CAPONE
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
BURT LANCASTER
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
AL CAPONE
Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
VIOLETA GARCIA
A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY
I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM
Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its pu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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NORM TOMLINSON
When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE
The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
APURVA GAGLANI
What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
T.D. JAKES
You run with time , it is in day or night has less important. If not run then time run away. You nee...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER
…If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY
A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
WILLIE SUTTON
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.
WILLIE SUTTON
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

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ALVIN TOFFLER
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
J. RICHARD CLARKE
It's when you wear fishnet stockings that you catch more than herring.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS
Give yourself to God. He can do more with it than you can.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Little cork-bodies poppers are really fun flies to catch them on.
CHUCK GREEN
We all have demons that were trying to fight; mine just happens to be you.
ANMOL ANDORE
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.’ Coraline
NEIL GAIMAN
American kids are more cynical than any other groups of kids I've worked with.
ROSALIND WISEMAN
With humor, you can be a lot more biting - and in a socially acceptable way - than you can with stra...
CAROL DARR
You can do more with a gun than just fire it.
MACGYVER
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong w...
MARK BURNETT
You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the i...
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JALAL TALABANI
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NEAL STEPHENSON
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
You can love more than one person, but you can only be in love with one person.
TILLARA GENNETT
Love your children more than money because you can laugh happily with them, but not with money.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I think that just shows how skilled you can be at times when you can catch it with one hand.
DWAYNE JARRETT
THOUGHTS COME AND GO, WHAT CAN YOU CATCH AFTER ALL?
DEYTH BANGER
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.
RICK RIORDAN
You can't come out with guns blazing when you got more guns than you can carry,
JOHN STONE
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LEWIS CARROLL
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CHRIS WADDLE
We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS
Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against.
AKIROQ BROST
A woman apologizing first in an argument to a man is like giving a freebie, which often has a big hi...
ANUJ SOMANY
We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM
Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Time marches on...with or without your ass
DENNIS BARTON
In Love I find myself.
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE
You create the flow, you are a leader, you go with the flow, you are a follower, if you are up again...
APURVA GAGLANI
Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS
I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask...
JAY NORTHCOTE
There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching -...
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