Bait Quotes

• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  William Blake

  Struggle, Temptation, Snares

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• Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

  Sun Bin

  War, Mean, Loss

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• Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

  LeCrae

  Hurt, Giving, Temptation

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• The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

  Frank Gorshin

  Waiting

  "Fictional character: The Riddler". "Batman/ A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Likes

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• Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

  David Lynch

  Fishing, Ideas, Waiting

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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Hook

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Literature, Steps

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.214, Penguin

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• For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

  Marisha Pessl

  Motivational, Men, Swallowing

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.463, Random House

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Carp, Falsehood

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello”, p.47

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• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.37

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• Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

  Thomas Adams

  Hook, Satan, Appetite

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.236

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• He that would fish, must venture his bait.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fish Tanks, Venture, Fishes

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• Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Culture, Drink, Superiors

  'Don'ts' (1929)

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• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Swallowing, Icing

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• The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

  Virginia Woolf

  Race, Fishing, Differences

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3201, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

  Moliere

  Hook

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• The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Children, Fool, Titles

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Humility, Modesty, Praise

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.341

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• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Crush, Art, War

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Allure, Recess

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.40, Bantam Classics

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

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• The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Intellectual, March

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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