Sayings about Sugar and Sweets
If you can’t give any sugar then speak sweetly. ~ Indian Proverbs
Too much sugar is bitter. ~ Nepalese Proverb
Flies will never leave the shop of a sweet maker. ~ Iranian Proverb
Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
If you are bitter at heart, sugar in the mouth will not help you. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants. ~ Malay Proverb
Good qualities never cancel out the bad, just as sugar is no antidote for poison. ~ Arabian Proverb
What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach. ~ Danish Proverbs
He who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is. ~ German Proverbs
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. ~ Jamaican Proverb
Half of an orange tastes just as sweet as a whole one. ~ Panamanian Proverb
Even a sugar mother-in-law tastes bitter. ~ Spanish Proverbs
When men are friendly the water is sweet. ~ Chinese Proverb
Ants die in sugar. ~ Malawian Proverb
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Stolen sugar is the sweetest. ~ Indian Proverb
You can’t expect both ends of a sugar cane to be as sweet. ~ Chinese Proverb
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. ~ German Proverb
Rather a bitter truth than a sweet lie. ~ Russian Proverbs
Words are sweet but they can never replace food. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Sugarcane is always sweet people only sometimes so. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ~ Bible
Flattery is sweet food for those who can swallow it. ~ Danish Proverbs
The devil sweetens another man’s wife with a spoonful of honey. ~ French Proverb
Drunk sweetly, paid sourly. ~ German Proverb
With true friends… even water drunk together is sweet enough. ~ Chinese Proverb
What good is giving sugar to the dead? ~ Indian Proverb
Where there is sugar, there are mice. ~ Malawian Proverb
A man without a mustache is like a cup of tea without sugar. ~ English Proverb
Put something sweet in his mouth and send good news to the heart. ~ French Proverb
Rebuke should have a grain more of salt than of sugar. ~ Traditional Proverb
One sprinkles the most sugar where the tart is burnt. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Don’t be too sweet, or else you will be eaten up; but don’t be too bitter, or else you will be spitted out. ~ Jewish Proverb
To a starving man bread is sweeter than honey. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
Patience is a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Sugar & Sweets
If your words are soft and sweet, they won’t be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them. ~ Author Unknown
When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar. ~ William Faulkner
Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread, and meat. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. ~ Helen Rowland
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end. ~ The Talmud
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice, especially when she’s taking a nap. ~Author Unknown
Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter. ~ Author Unknown
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach. ~ Anne Bradstreet
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ~ Aristotle
Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.~ Author Unknown
The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source. ~ Juvenal
Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn’t mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that. ~ Mike Ditka
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ~ John Keats
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. ~ John Ciardi
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet. ~ St. Theresa of Lisieux
