Full Idea
If God had not created yellow honey, men would say that figs were sweeter.
Gist of Idea
If God had not created honey, men would say figs are sweeter
Source
Xenophanes (fragments/reports [c.530 BCE], B38), quoted by Herodian - On Peculiar Speech 41.5
Book Reference
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.24