A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.
A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.
The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.
My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.
You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.