Bait Quotes

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

"My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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 have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.

Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

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 of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

It's just one of those deals where I have to keep moving and keep looking. It's a lot about timing and a lot about boat-positioning, and I'm just trying to get fish to react to several different baits.

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'!

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

A little bait catches a large fish.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

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, But worn a bait for ladies.

When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

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. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.