Bait Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bait Happiness Prudence Risk Suspects
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton Copy Share Image
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink… — Kuki Gallmann Copy Share Image
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
