It Is Not By Saying, ‘Honey, Honey
It is not by saying, ‘honey, honey,’ that sweetness comes into the mouth.
It is not by saying, ‘honey, honey,’ that sweetness comes into the mouth.
The beginning of sin is sweet; its end is bitter.
Sweet is the voice of the man who has wealth.
The wine is sweet, the paying bitter.
A black plum is as sweet as a white.
Stolen fruit is sweet.
A pig’s life, short and sweet.
He who eats bitter things gets sweet things too.
The melon seller declares his melons sweet.
War is sweet to him who does not go to it.
After the work is done, repose is sweet.
Not every sweet root gives birth to sweet grass.