“One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.”
“A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall”
“You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk”
“You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.”
“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”
“Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.”