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  •   And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Exodus 3:8.

  • How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms119:103.

  • And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 3:4.

  • Itook thelittlebookout of theangel'shand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation10:9^10.

  • Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? 156

    - Rupert Chawner Brooke
      'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

  • The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Bee A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracy

    - Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
    c.1884  Complete Poems, no.1627 (first published1890).

  • Come BackToThe Raft Again, Huck Honey!

    - Leslie A(aron) Fiedler
       Title of essay on the repressed homoerotic undercurrent in US writing.

  • Reachmea rose, honey, and pour mea last drop intothat there crystal glass.

    - F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
      The Great Gatsby, ch.4.

  • Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey.

    - Benjamin Franklin
      Poor Richard's  Almanack,  Jun.

  • Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

    - Nathaniel Hawthorne
      The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.5.

  • She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, 'I love thee true.'

    -John Keats
      'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', stanza 7.

  • The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the Stars above And sang to a small guitar, 'Oh lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are'.

    - Edward Lear
    Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and  Alphabets,'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat'.

  •    I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. They do taste kinda funny, but it keeps 'em on the knife.

    - (Frederic) Ogden Nash
    Attributed.

  •   Poetry isthe honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all

    -Thomas Nashe

  • Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blessed, Beneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not,O I know not What joys await us there, What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare.

    -J(ames) M(ason) Neale
      'Jerusalem the Golden', translated from the original Latin of St Bernard of Cluny.

  • Vinegar he poured on meall his life; Iam well marinated; how can I be honey now?

    -Tillie Olsen
      Tell Me a Riddle, section1.

  • BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

    - Morley Safer
      In 60 Minutes, CBS TV broadcast,15 Sep.

  • A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.

    - Godfrey Smith
      Of Bath.The English Companion.

  •    In youth, before I waxe'  d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Amoretti,'Anacreontics', no.1.

  • Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honeyand wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

    -Jonathan Swift
      The Battle of the Books.

  • And most of all would I flee from the cruel madness of love, The honey of poison-flowers and all the measureless ill.

    -Tennyson
      Maud, pt.1, sect.4, stanza10, l.156^7.

  • The sun hums down through the cotton flowers of her dress into the bell of her heart and buzzes in the honey there and couches and kisses, lazy-loving and boozed, in her red-berried breast.

    - Dylan Marlais Thomas
      Under MilkWood.

  • I've beenrichand I've beenpoor.Believeme, honey, rich is better.

    - Sophie pseudonym of  Sophia Abuza Tucker
      Some ofThese Days.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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