For other uses, seeHoney (disambiguation).

Honey is a sweet, viscous food substance made byhoney bees and somerelated insects. Bees produce honey from thesugary secretions of plants (floralnectar) or from secretions of other insects (such ashoneydew), byregurgitation,enzymatic activity, and water evaporation. Bees store honey in wax structures calledhoneycombs.

• ἵππος δραμών, κύων ἰχνεύσας, μέλισσαμέλι 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 ofMeditations (167 CE).
    • As ahorse after arace, and a huntingdog when he hathhunted, and abee when she hath made herhoney, look not forapplause andcommendation; so neither doth thatman that rightly dothunderstand his ownnature when he hath done agood turn: but from one doth proceed to do another, even as thevine after she hath once bornefruit in her own properseason, is ready for anothertime.
      • Translated by Meric Casaubon (1634).
    • As a horse when he hasrun, a dog when he has tackled thegame, a bee when it has made thehoney, so a man when he has done a good act does not call out for others to come andsee, but he goes on to another act, as a vine goes on toproduce again thegrapes in season.
      • Translated by George Long (1862).
    • We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makeshoney, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
      • Unknown translator.

• TheWords ofKindness are morehealing to a droopingHeart thanBalm orHoney: and if everGratitude fully possessed thehumanBreast, it might at that Instant besaid to possess the Breast ofCynthia.
  • Sarah Fielding, Book VII ofThe Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last (1744), p. 339.

• When you go in search ofhoney you mustexpect to bestung bybees.
  • Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster,The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (1883).

• Nothing butMoney,
  IsSweeter thanHoney.
  • Poor Richard's Almanack (1735).

• Thebeecollectshoney fromflowers in such a way as to do the leastdamage ordestruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged andfresh, just as he found them.
  • Francis de Sales, "Devotion Must Be Practiced in Different Ways."

• Youmoved likehoney in mydream lastnight
  • Fiona Apple, "Slow Like Honey", tr. 5 ofTidal (Columbia, 1996).

• Sunlightloves me,feeds memilk andhoney
  • Arcade Fire (unreleased).

• Milk andhoney pouring down likemoney
  • Beck, "Milk & Honey", tr. 8 ofMidnite Vultures (DGC, 1999).

• And it's just likehoney when you'relove comes over me
  • Mariah Carey, "Honey", tr. 1 ofButterfly (Columbia, 1997).

• And they check the phase much faster lickinghoney from aknife
  • The Cult, "Honey from a Knife", tr. 1 ofChoice of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl, 2012).

• And I hold on to you until thelight pours likehoney
  • Hole, "Honey", tr. 3 ofNobody's Daughter (Mercury, 2010).

• Listen to thegirl
  As she takes on half theworld
  Moving up and soalive
  In herhoney dripping
  Beehive
  Beehive
  It'sgood, so good, it's so good
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain, "Just Like Honey", tr. 1 ofPsychocandy (Blanco y Negro, 1985).

• She got thehoney, and I got somemoney tobuy her a bigbouquet
  • Mat Kearney, "She Got the Honey", tr. 8 ofYoung Love (Universal Republic, 2011).

• Ismellhoney in yourhair
  • Magic Man, "Honey", tr. 6 ofBefore the Waves (Columbia, 2014).

• Yourlove was sticky likehoney
  • Bonnie McKee, "Honey", tr. 6 ofTrouble (Reprise, 2004).

• Itastehoney but I haven't seen the hive
  Yeah I didn't look, I didn't eventry
• We are honey and thebee
  Backyard ofbutterflies surrounded me
  I fell inlove with you
  Like bees to honey
  • Owl City, "Honey and the Bee", tr. 5 ofAll Things Bright and Beautiful (Universal Republic, 2011).

• Honey in themorning, honey in theevening, honey at suppertime
  Be my little honey andlove me all thetime
  • Charlie Phillips andOdis Echols, "Sugartime" (1958).

• There's a lot ofhoney in thisworld
  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 ofOut of Time (Warner Bros., 1991).

• Milk andtoast andhoney make itsunny on arainySaturday
  • Roxette, "Milk and Toast and Honey", tr. 3 ofRoom Service (EMI, 2001).

• Ataste of honey
  Tasting muchsweeter thanwine
  • Bobby Scott andRic Marlow, "A Taste of Honey".

• Whowantshoney
  As long as there's somemoney?
  Who wants that honey?
  • The Smashing Pumpkins, "Cherub Rock", tr. 1 ofSiamese Dream (Virgin, 1993).

• In thedays
  When we were swinging from thetrees
  I was amonkey
  Stealinghoney from a swarm ofbees
  • U2, "Wild Honey", tr. 7 ofAll That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope, 2000).

• The pedigree ofhoney
  Does not concern thebee;
  A clover, any time, to him
  Isaristocracy.
  • Emily Dickinson, Poems. V. (Ed. 1891).

• Bees work forman, and yet they never bruise
  Their Master'sflower, but leave it having done,
  Asfair as ever and as fit to use;
  So both the flower doth stay andhoney run.
  • George Herbert,The Church. Providence.

• "Obees,sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field
  Is shiningwhite with fragrant immortelles.
  Fly swiftly there and drain thosehoney wells."
  • Helen Hunt Jackson, My Bees.

• Therose isred, theviolet'sblue
  Thehoney'ssweet, and so are you.
  Thou are mylove and I am thine;
  I drew thee to myValentine.
  The lot was cast and then I drew;
  AndFortunesaid it shou'd be you.
  • As printed inGammer Gurton's Garland (London, 1784).

• How doth the little busybee
  Improve each shininghour,
  And gatherhoney all theday
  From every openingflower.
  • Isaac Watts,Against Idleness.

• We're the only ones who makehoney, pollinateflowers, and dress like this!
  • Barry B. Benson (voiced byJerry Seinfeld),Bee Movie (2007).

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

• To makehoney,youngbeeneed youngflower, notoldprune.
  • Mr. Kesuke Miyagi (Pat Morita),The Karate Kid (1984).

• That buzzingnoise means something.  Now, the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you are…abee!  And the only reason for being a bee is to makehoney.  And the only reason for making honey is so I caneat it.
  • Winnie the Pooh (voiced bySterling Holloway),Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966).

• Thisearth is thehoney (madhu, the effect) of all beings, and all beings are thehoney (madhu, the effect) of this earth.  Likewise thisbright, immortal person in this earth, and that bright immortal person incorporated in thebody (both aremadhu).  He indeed is the same as that Self, that Immortal, that Brahman, thatAll.
  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.1.

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