Bait Quotes

• Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

  

  Moliere
  • Beauty
  • Intelligence
  • Hook

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

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Beauty
  • Delight

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

  

  William Blake
  • Struggle
  • Bait
  • Snare

• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Policy
  • Falsehood

• Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Food
  • Fishes
  • Hook

• 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.

  

  T. H. White
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Love Is

• 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 Casting Crowns
  • Strong
  • Trouble
  • Peacock

• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Falsehood
  • Carp

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Opinion
  • Fool
  • Melancholy

• BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Distance
  • Wait
  • Magnets Pull

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

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Health
  • Breathe
  • Bait

• You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Path
  • Cutting

• Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Alone
  • Beauty

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

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Money
  • Used
  • Bait

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

  

  Epictetus
  • Pleasure
  • Souls
  • Bait

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

  

  Blake Clark
  • Georgia
  • Bait
  • Sushi

• 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
  • Rich
  • Congress

• I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Grateful
  • Admire
  • Hopefully

• 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
  • Life
  • Dull
  • Bait