Bait Quotes
114 quotes by 103 authors
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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are…
— Les Brown
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase,…
— Robert Burton
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
— Sun Tzu
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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…
— Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
— Sun Tzu
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Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
— Alice Riley
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Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with…
— Kuki Gallmann
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
— John Milton
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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 All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation.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 or…
— Peter Cundall
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The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will…
— Alexander Hamilton
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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…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it…
— David Lynch
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Hey, the bait is here. Get in Quebecers, get in the lobster trap, and then we’ll close the door. And you’ll have a referendum no…
— Philippe Couillard
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Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
— Madeline Kahn
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be…
— Alan Sillitoe
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Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.
— Sun Bin
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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
— Socrates
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And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would…
— Theodore Roethke
Who Wrote These Bait Quotes
103 authors contributed a total of 114 Bait Quotes, led by these top contributors: