Honey



Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made by honey bees and some related insects. Bees produce honey from the sugary secretions of plants (floral nectar) or from secretions of other insects (such as honeydew), by regurgitation, enzymatic activity, and water evaporation. Bees store honey in wax structures called honeycombs.

Quotes

 * ἵππος δραμών, κύων ἰχνεύσας, μέλισσα μέλι ποιήσασα, ἄνθρωπος δ εὖ ποιήσας οὐκ ἐπίσταται, ἀλλὰ μεταβαίνει ἐφ ἕτερον, ὡς ἄμπελος ἐπὶ τὸ πάλιν ἐν τῇ ὥρᾳ τὸν βότρυν ἐνεγκεῖν. ἐν τούτοις οὖν δεῖ εἶναι τοῖς τρόπον τινὰ ἀπαρακολουθήτως αὐτὸ ποιοῦσι.
 * Marcus Aurelius, Book V, §6 of Meditations (167 CE).
 * As a horse after a race, and a hunting dog when he hath hunted, and a bee when she hath made her honey, look not for applause and commendation; so neither doth that man that rightly doth understand his own nature when he hath done a good turn: but from one doth proceed to do another, even as the vine after she hath once borne fruit in her own proper season, is ready for another time.
 * Translated by Meric Casaubon (1634).
 * As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tackled the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come and see, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on to produce again the grapes in season.
 * Translated by George Long (1862).
 * We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
 * Unknown translator.


 * The Words of Kindness are more healing to a drooping Heart than Balm or Honey: and if ever Gratitude fully possessed the human Breast, it might at that Instant be said to possess the Breast of Cynthia.
 * Sarah Fielding, Book VII of The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last (1744), p. 339.


 * When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
 * Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883).


 * Nothing but Money, Is Sweeter than Honey.
 * Poor Richard's Almanack (1735).


 * The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
 * Francis de Sales, "Devotion Must Be Practiced in Different Ways."

Lyrics

 * You moved like honey in my dream last night
 * Fiona Apple, "Slow Like Honey", tr. 5 of Tidal (Columbia, 1996).


 * Sunlight loves me, feeds me milk and honey
 * Arcade Fire (unreleased).


 * Milk and honey pouring down like money
 * Beck, "Milk & Honey", tr. 8 of Midnite Vultures (DGC, 1999).


 * And it's just like honey when you're love comes over me
 * Mariah Carey, "Honey", tr. 1 of Butterfly (Columbia, 1997).


 * And they check the phase much faster licking honey from a knife
 * The Cult, "Honey from a Knife", tr. 1 of Choice of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl, 2012).


 * And I hold on to you until the light pours like honey
 * Hole, "Honey", tr. 3 of Nobody's Daughter (Mercury, 2010).


 * Listen to the girl As she takes on half the world Moving up and so alive In her honey dripping Beehive Beehive It's good, so good, it's so good
 * The Jesus and Mary Chain, "Just Like Honey", tr. 1 of Psychocandy (Blanco y Negro, 1985).


 * She got the honey, and I got some money to buy her a big bouquet
 * Mat Kearney, "She Got the Honey", tr. 8 of Young Love (Universal Republic, 2011).


 * I smell honey in your hair
 * Magic Man, "Honey", tr. 6 of Before the Waves (Columbia, 2014).


 * Your love was sticky like honey
 * Bonnie McKee, "Honey", tr. 6 of Trouble (Reprise, 2004).


 * I taste honey but I haven't seen the hive Yeah I didn't look, I didn't even try
 * We are honey and the bee Backyard of butterflies surrounded me I fell in love with you Like bees to honey
 * Owl City, "Honey and the Bee", tr. 5 of All Things Bright and Beautiful (Universal Republic, 2011).


 * Honey in the morning, honey in the evening, honey at suppertime Be my little honey and love me all the time
 * Charlie Phillips and Odis Echols, "Sugartime" (1958).


 * There's a lot of honey in this world Baby this honey's from me You've got to do what you do Do it with me
 * R.E.M., "Me in Honey", tr. 11 of Out of Time (Warner Bros., 1991).


 * Milk and toast and honey make it sunny on a rainy Saturday
 * Roxette, "Milk and Toast and Honey", tr. 3 of Room Service (EMI, 2001).


 * A taste of honey Tasting much sweeter than wine
 * Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow, "A Taste of Honey".


 * Who wants honey As long as there's some money? Who wants that honey?
 * The Smashing Pumpkins, "Cherub Rock", tr. 1 of Siamese Dream (Virgin, 1993).


 * In the days When we were swinging from the trees I was a monkey Stealing honey from a swarm of bees
 * U2, "Wild Honey", tr. 7 of All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope, 2000).

Poetry

 * The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.
 * Emily Dickinson, Poems. V. (Ed. 1891).


 * Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
 * George Herbert, The Church. Providence.


 * "O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles. Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells."
 * Helen Hunt Jackson, My Bees.


 * The rose is red, the violet's blue The honey's sweet, and so are you. Thou are my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine. The lot was cast and then I drew; And Fortune said it shou'd be you.
 * As printed in Gammer Gurton's Garland (London, 1784).


 * How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.
 * Isaac Watts, Against Idleness.

Movie quotes

 * We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers, and dress like this!
 * Barry B. Benson (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld), Bee Movie (2007).


 * Well, all I know is, mama only got a taste of honey. But she wanted the whole beehive.
 * Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002).


 * To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune.
 * Mr. Kesuke Miyagi (Pat Morita), The Karate Kid (1984).


 * That buzzing noise means something. Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you are…a bee!  And the only reason for being a bee is to make honey.  And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it.
 * Winnie the Pooh (voiced by Sterling Holloway), Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966).

Upanishads quotes

 * This earth is the honey (madhu, the effect) of all beings, and all beings are the honey (madhu, the effect) of this earth. Likewise this bright, immortal person in this earth, and that bright immortal person incorporated in the body (both are madhu).  He indeed is the same as that Self, that Immortal, that Brahman, that All.
 * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.1.

Attributed

 * Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
 * Attributed to Victor Hugo


 * Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
 * Attributed to Robert Green Ingersoll


 * Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
 * Friedrich Nietzsche