Snares Quotes - Page 2

• ...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Temptation, Satan

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• He can best avoid a snare who knows how to set one.

  Publilius Syrus

  Know How, Knows

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• A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, ch. 17, 1513.

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

  Will Durant

  Acceptance, Assumption, Irrational

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• Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

  Max Lucado

  Hunters, Bitterness, Traps

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  White, Experience, Frost

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• Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Greed, Enough

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• Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lines, Satan, Dividing

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• A vow is a snare for sin

  Samuel Johnson

  Sin, Vow

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• What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Dog, War

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• The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Ideas, Rabbits

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• The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Subtle, Blindness, Simulate

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• It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

  Lucretius

  Strong, Way, Fool

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.153, Indiana University Press

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• More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.

  Max Weinberg

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.

  Ambrose

  Devil, Bait, Doe

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• But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

  Saadi

  Feet, Hands, Bird

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• Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds?

  Hanshan

  Rain, Clouds, Wind

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• It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

  Charlie Watts

  Years, Challenges, Enjoy

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• FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Gun, Men

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• I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Gambling, Rocks

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• They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

  Paul the Apostle

  Fall, Men, Roots

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• Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Night, Men

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Character, Pride

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.245

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• O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Dark, Garden

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