More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.


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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
FRENCH PROVERB
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
AMERICAN PROVERB
You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
CHARLAINE HARRIS
As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?
ANDREW CUOMO
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar
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
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 gallon of gall.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
RICK KAPLAN
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
You can not get honey from flies
VICTOR PEREZ CENTENO
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a li...
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON
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COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON
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AESOP
Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU
And the books and spreadsheets help me avoid some traps. I have a tendency to remember bad things mo...
DAVE DUNCAN
They were like flies to honey last year; they were just drooling over that rod. We could have had Pa...
JIM SMITHAM
After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.
MARTHA HALL KELLY
I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.
JESSICA ALBA
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
POPE JOHN XXIII
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
HONORé DE BALZAC
It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing e...
DEYTH BANGER
Pussy is sweeter than honey and more valuable than money.
MARY B. MORRISON
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the fl...
STEPHANIE BEACHAM
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the h...
BIBLE
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. English Proverb (17th century)
ENGLISH PROVERB
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
SARAH FIELDING
Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA)
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
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What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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NORM TOMLINSON
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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
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HARUKI MURAKAMI
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

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MARK BURNETT
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Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
SIR WALTER SCOTT
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY
The images of the devastation of 1900 are always with us. It's engraved in our collective consciousn...
MARSH DAVIS
I like simple food, seasoned with just salt, pepper, oil and vinegar. Complicated food and complicat...
SIRIO MACCIONI
Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK
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
The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
IVANN RODRIGUEZ
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...
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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
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MARY J. BLIGE
Hold a true friend with both hands. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria
AFRICAN PROVERBS
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
Right there I was just trying to protect. I think he caught a little bit more plate with that pitch ...
B.J. UPTON
More doors are opened with "please" than with keys.
UNKNOWN
Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
JANICE DICKINSON
What I really love are acai bowls, with berries, granola, and so much honey.
AULI'I CRAVALHO
Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's...
IDINA MENZEL
It is better to deal with the devil we know than the devil we don’t know.
VIKRANT PARSAI
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger.
DAVID ABNEY
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CALVIN COOLIDGE
You can't be jealous of someone else's results. You don't know the prayer, process, sacrifice, and w...
GERMANY KENT
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Never love with all your heart, it only ends in breaking. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN
If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ...
LARRY MCMURTRY
Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE
Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE
Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
MITCH ALBOM
Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
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Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE
I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had al...
MICHELLE MCKINNEY HAMMOND
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you ...
LOU HOLTZ
...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirm...
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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
JULIE KAGAWA
I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?
DEYTH BANGER

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