I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the…

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

“Looks like the wrong kind of bait can get you the right kind of fish.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Baden Powell de Aquino

“he remained absolutely convinced that his way of life was no worse than mine, only different, pointing out in the process certain inconsistencies: Why,…

— Ron Hall

Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink…

— Kuki Gallmann

Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled…

— Peter Cundall

Pleasure is the bait of sin

— Plato

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

— Frank Gorshin

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

— Mark Twain

As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.

— Anita Bryant

“Sitting still and wishing Makes no person great; The good Lord sends the fishing, But you must dig the bait!”

— Daryl Hoole

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and…

— Michael Grant

Good things come to those who hustle

— Chuck Noll