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Tag Name "Bait" (86)

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We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.
Kinky Friedman
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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
William Shakespeare
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Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
Alice Riley
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. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.
Andrew Lang
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Good things come to those who hustle
Chuck Noll
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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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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
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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.
John Owen
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I assume that people get in trouble when they do a bait and switch, when they say something to get the job and then they just don't do that thing.
Todd Strauss-Schulson
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Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.
Kenneth Goldsmith
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Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
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The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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.
Alan Sillitoe
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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
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Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
Josh Billings
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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
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Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.
David Lynch
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Mike Tyson
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There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
Faith Baldwin
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