Bait Quotes

114 quotes by 99 authors

Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if… — Pema Chodron
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. — Ambrose Bierce
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. — Sun Tzu
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook. — John Lyly
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not… — Charles Caleb Colton
Pleasure is the bait of sin — Plato
Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a… — Jason Whitlock
I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless… — Norman Tebbit
The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait. — Ambrose
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of… — Robert Paul Wolff
I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers.… — Ron Willingham
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which… — John Milton
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the… — Zhuangzi
Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee… — Jonah Goldberg
I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet… — David Lynch
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 that would fish, must venture his bait. — Benjamin Franklin
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy. — Mark Ruffalo
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… — David Lynch
When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits… — John Owen

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