Bait Quote by Oliver Goldsmith Download Open image “Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.” — Oliver Goldsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bait Hook Hope
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Keep thy hook always baited, for a fish lurks even in the most unlikely swim. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket. — Ben Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith 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