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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: vliegen vang je met stroop en niet met azijn
• Finnish: hunaja toimii paremmin kuin etikka (literally “honey works better than vinegar”) (uncommon), kärpäsiä saa enemmän siirapilla kuin tervalla
• French: plus fait douceur que violence, on n’attrape pas des mouches avec du vinaigre (fr)
• German: mit einem Tropfen Honig fängt man mehr Fliegen als mit einem Fass Essig
• Hungarian: kedvességgel / szép szóval többre mész, mint keménykedéssel
• Italian: si pigliano più mosche in una gocciola di miele che in un barile d'acete
• Polish: not used in Polish
• Spanish: más moscas se cogen con miel que con hiel

See also

• catch flies
• flytrap
• honey trap
• thirst trap