"The glittering baits of titles and honours are……" — Jane Welsh Carlyle

More Baits Quotes

This quote is filed under Baits Quotes, one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. — Sun Tzu
• For evil news rides post, while good news baits. — John Milton
• Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and… — Peter Cundall
• Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits. — Madeline Kahn
• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us… — Charles Caleb Colton
• He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish,… — John Milton
• When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead… — John Owen
• Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. — Thomas Adams
• JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. — Matthew Henry
• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend… — John Milton
• Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. — John Steinbeck
• ...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it… — Louise Erdrich

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