A Quote by Benjamin Franklin

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

Benjamin Franklin

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Catch Flies Gallon Honey More Than Vinegar Will

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Benjamin Franklin
American - Politician
January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

Henry IV of France

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

Charlaine Harris

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

Jerry Lewis

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

Cassandra King

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 gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

Saint Francis de Sales

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

Abraham Lincoln

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Saint Francis de Sales

This is something I haven't told many people, because it's embarrassing. We always used to catch flies with our hands. I was the only one who could catch 'em. One-handed, two-handed. I actually studied flies. I'd watch 'em. How do you catch flies? They fly up. If I can catch that, I can catch anything.

DeAndre Hopkins

RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies with honey than vinegar. Rather than telling people to vote, maybe she'll do a mini-challenge on voting. She understands that you can influence people in a good way without preaching.

Trixie Mattel

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

Larry Kramer

I find that most home cooks don't get vinegars. They're misunderstood, mostly due to the factory-made red wine vinegar that everyone commonly cooks with... that, and the giant gallon of white distilled vinegar that we all use, mostly to clean and disinfect things!