Bait Quotes

114 Bait quotes by 99 unique authors

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all… — John Milton
Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'! — Frank Lebby Stanton
I think the bait for doing something really is always the part. — Sam Waterston
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used. — Mike Tyson
Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! — Frank Gorshin
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the… — Jerry Reed
We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters. — Kinky Friedman
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than… — James Russell Lowell
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows,… — William Shakespeare
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will… — Mark Hall
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. — Oliver Goldsmith
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. — Thomas Jefferson
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. — John Steinbeck
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. — Mark Twain
Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational… — Rumi
Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich
I dodged behind Mac for cover and refused to take the bait. I glanced at my nonexistent watch. 'Oops, look at the time. Guess I… — Karen Chance
Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a… — Ann Brashares
The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian) From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power.… — T.H. White

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