A Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Irish - Novelist
September 1, 1789 - June 4, 1849

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

Larry Kramer

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

Charlaine Harris

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

Henry IV of France

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

Rumi

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

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Ignatius of Loyola

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

Cassandra King

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

Jerry Lewis

I don't condemn and I don't convert. I've been searching through books and bibles to find what this life is worth, and I've made up my mind: Love is my religion. You can take it or leave it, and you don't have to believe it. Love is my religion

Ziggy Marley

We are sitting on our honeymoon bed in the honeymoon suite. We are in a state of honeymoon, in our honey month. These words are so sweet: honey, moon. This bed is so big, we could live on it. We have been happily marooned -- honey marooned -- on this bed for days.

Kelly Link

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

Elizabeth Janeway

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!

Andrew Zimmern

The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.

Anthony of Padua

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

Saint Francis de Sales

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

John H. Johnson

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