Bait Quotes - Page 4

• Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Debt, Traps

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.180

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• "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.

  Gavin McInnes

  Perfect, Breastfeeding, Kind

  Source: thoughtcatalog.com

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• Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.

  Andy Kindler

  Roots, Watches, Should

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• Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

  John Lyly

  Beauty, Hook, Deceitful

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• 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 swamp.

  Jerry Reed

  Family, Boys, Ties

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• It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.

  Bill Burr

  Stupid, Talking, People

  Source: www.smudailycampus.com

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

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Waiting, Matter

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!

  David Edelstein

  Real, Actors, Done

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 2012.

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• 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.

  Mark Hall

  Strong, Bass, Littles

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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• 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 crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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

  Thomas Brooks

  Taken, Play, Hook

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.312

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

  David Gilmour

  Breaths

  Source: www.pinkfloydz.com

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• More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of the Special Theory, that Einstein has proved the relativity of simultaneity in general - or that his 'simultaneity' is something more than a logical artefact - must manifestly be given up.

  Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

  Special, Littles, Argument

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• He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

  John Milton

  Christian, Running, Race

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 12

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

  Ambrose

  Devil, Doe, Firsts

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• Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Government, People, Black

  "Color-Blind Policy, Color-Conscious Morality" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. May 13, 2015.

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

  Lindsey Graham

  President, President Obama, Hope And Change

  Twitter post from Jun 15, 2012

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Successful, Mislead Us, Watches

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• It's Good...But
  No more rush hour driving
  To start and end your day
  No more early alarm calls
  But..much less pay
  No more back stabbing
  Or rising to the bait
  No more phone calls from the boss
  Asking you to work late
  But...having to get by
  On half your hourly rate
  Now you have all day
  To sit or doze to stay to go
  Anywhere you like...
  ..cheaply
  You've got less dough
  Travel around the world
  Do anything you've desired
  But do it economically
  Now that you're retired

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Phones, Boss

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• Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'

  Phil Robertson

  Dating, Hook, Want

  "Ted Cruz Quotes Stars of 'Duck Dynasty' in 'Obamacare' Speech". Phil Robertson's speech, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if you've already taken the bait and feel the familiar pull of self-denigration, marshal your intelligence, courage, and humor in order to turn the tide. Ask yourself: Do I want to strengthen what I'm feeling now? Do I want to cut myself off from my basic goodness? Remind yourself that your fundamental nature is unconditionally open and free.

  Pema Chodron

  Meaningful, Taken, Cutting

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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