Bait Quotes
114 quotes by 99 authors
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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
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BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
— Sun Tzu
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Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
— John Lyly
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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
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Pleasure is the bait of sin
— Plato
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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
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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
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The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
— Ambrose
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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He that would fish, must venture his bait.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
— Mark Ruffalo
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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…
— David Lynch
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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
Who Wrote These Bait Quotes
99 authors contributed a total of 114 Bait Quotes, led by these top contributors: