Bait Quotes

• The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

  Frank Gorshin

  Waiting

  "Fictional character: The Riddler". "Batman/ A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Literature, Steps

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.214, Penguin

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• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Cooking, Hook

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

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• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  William Blake

  Struggle, Temptation, Snares

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• For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

  Marisha Pessl

  Motivational, Men, Swallowing

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.463, Random House

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Carp, Falsehood

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Hamlet. King Lear. Othello”, p.47

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• He that would fish, must venture his bait.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fish Tanks, Venture, Fishes

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• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Truth, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.37

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• The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

  Virginia Woolf

  Race, Fishing, Differences

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3201, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Culture, Drink, Superiors

  'Don'ts' (1929)

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Swallowing, Icing

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Allure, Recess

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.40, Bantam Classics

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• Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Crush, Art, War

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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

  Lord Chesterfield

  Humility, Modesty, Praise

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.341

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable not to stir forth, but rather to retreat, thus enticing the enemy in his turn; then, when part of his army has come out, we may deliver our attack with advantage.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.136, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Mike Tyson

  Used

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Hook

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• Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• 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.

  Les Brown

  Communication, People, Television

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

  Sam Waterston

  Thinking

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Real, Moon, Mind

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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• I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

  Larry Norman

  Men, Offering, Fishing

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