“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
“A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall”
“You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk”
“Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.”
“There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.”