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

A drop of honey can catch more flies than a gallon of gall.

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

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

3454. More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.

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

They attracted Hurricanes and Spitfires as honey attracts flies.

"The Flies And The Honey-Pot

A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves." Pleasure bought with pains, hurts."

Only make yourself honey and the flies will suck you.

The flies have conquered the flypaper.

WE SEEM TO BE LIKE FLIES CAUGHT IN HONEY. BEcause life is sweet we do not want to give it up, and yet the more we become involved in it, the more we are trapped, limited, and frustrated. We love it and hate it at the same time. We fall in love with people and possessions only to be tortured by anxiety for them. The conflict is not only between ourselves and the surrounding universe; it is between ourselves and ourselves. For intractable nature is both around and within us. The exasperating “life” which is at once lovable and perishable, pleasant and painful, a blessing and

574. A feather in hand is better then a bird in the ayre.

I have sent you here enclosed, a drop of that honey that I have taken out of the carcase of a lion. Judg. xiv. 5-8. I have eaten thereof myself, and am much refreshed thereby. (Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them, we shall find a nest of honey within them.) The Philistines understand me not.

Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.