A Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

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

Saint Francis de Sales

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Barrel Flies Full Gets Honey More Spoon Than Vinegar

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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss - Priest
August 21, 1567 - December 28, 1622

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

Charlaine Harris

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

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

Jerry Lewis

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

Henry IV of France

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

Cassandra King

Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.

Philip Zimbardo

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

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

You do not get more with honey than with vinegar!

Larry Kramer

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

John Lyly

Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks.

Andy Kindler

And yet there are many times when it does not make any difference what pattern one uses. One thing is certain. The more bedraggled the fly gets the better the trout like it. I think there is a reason for this. I think the bedraggled half worn out wet fly more closely imitates a nymph than a new one does. Most commercial flies are tied too bushy and full. A little trimming of wings and thinning out of hackles will often work wonders.