Honey is a gift of nature. The following proverbs and quotes are all about honey.
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A dead bee will make no honey.
A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.
A fly follows honey.
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Benjamin FranklinAt last Gandalf pushed away his plate and jug - he had eaten two whole loaves (with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream) and drunk at least a quart of mead - and he took out his pipe.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About honey and mead.
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
Every bee's honey is sweet.
Flies are caught more readily with a single drop of honey than with a cask of vinegar.
Flies swarm where there is honey.
Flies will easily fly into the honey; their problem is how to get out.
From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
He keeps hives and hives of great fierce bees, and lives most on cream and honey.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking about Beorn
He who would gather honey must bear the sting of the bees.
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.
If you are nice to others you can easily get their cooperation.How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Isaac WattsImprove each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Source: Divine Songs
If a bee didn't have a sting, she couldn't keep her honey.
It's better to eat pepper and be happy than to eat honey and be sad.
It's easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
Its the roving bee that gathers honey.
Little bunny is getting nice and fat again on bread and honey.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Beorn
Talking about Bilbo
Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
William GoldingMore flies are caught with a drop of honey than a barrel of vinegar.
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
No money, no honey.
(unknown author)Now Galadriel rose from the grass, and taking a cup from one of her maidens she filled it with white mead and gave it to Celeborn.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Old bees yield no honey.
One bee makes no honey; one grain makes no rice soup.
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar.