A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Devour Flies Honey Make Will Yourself

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Miguel de Cervantes
Spanish - Novelist
September 29, 1547 - April 23, 1616

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.

Emanuel Cleaver

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

Charlaine Harris

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

Claire Cook

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

Henry IV of France

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

Terence Trent D'Arby

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

Andrew Cuomo

Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.

Henry Van Dyke

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

Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour [or power] of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (See 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6)

Sheri L. Dew

This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.