you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

English

Alternative forms

• honey catches more flies than vinegar
• you attract more flies with honey than vinegar

• you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
• you catch more flies with honey than vinegar

• you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

Proverb

you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

1. It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity.

Translations

It is easier to persuade others with polite requests and a positive attitude rather than with rude demands and negativity

Dutch: vliegen vang je met stroop en niet met azijn French: plus fait douceur que violence, on n'attrape pas des mouches avec du vinaigre (fr)

Italian: si pigliano più mosche in una gocciola di miele che in un barile d'acete Spanish: más moscas se cogen con miel que con hiel