Bait Quotes

114 Bait quotes by 99 unique authors

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
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. — Thomas Adams
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers… — Pachomius the Great
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. — LeCrae
JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. — Matthew Henry
Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of… — Ron Currie Jr.
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy. — Saul
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific… — Larry Norman
When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite. — John Burroughs
We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait — Blake Clark
Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait. — P.J. O'Rourke

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