Baits Quotes

#1. Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures. - Author: Louise Erdrich

#2. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. - Author: Sun Tzu

#3. Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. - Author: Josh Billings

#4. Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people. - Author: Nikki Giovanni

#5. Some gifts are baits! Watch out! - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. 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. - Author: Anne Bradstreet

#7. Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up! - Author: L. Ron Hubbard

#8. Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. - Author: Thomas Adams

#9. Your boyfriend has some real trust issues," Morpheus baits. "Shut up. He had a rough childhood." "He should be grateful he had one at all. - Author: A.G. Howard

#10. Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction. - Author: Jaggi Vasudev

#11. Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits. - Author: Madeline Kahn

#12. Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these things ... what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with its envenomed baits, have unto our souls? - Author: John Owen

#13. For evil news rides post, while good news baits. - Author: John Milton

#14. 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. - Author: Kevin VanDam

#15. [Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements. - Author: Roger Allam

#16. JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks. - Author: Matthew Henry

#17. Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
For though we like it, as a forward child,
'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave. - Author: William Davenant

#18. Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. - Author: Mark Twain

#19. 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. - Author: Andrew Lang

#20. The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks". - Author: Paul C. Nagel

#21. Matthew Henry wrote, "The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."2 - Author: Tullian Tchividjian

#22. I guess a man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it. - Author: John Steinbeck

#23. Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. - Author: John Steinbeck

#24. The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth. - Author: Susan Griffin

#25. 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. - Author: Charles Caleb Colton

#26. Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved. - Author: Alain De Botton

#27. You can catch fishes with baits and men with bright colours! - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? 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. - Author: John Milton

#29. The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools. - Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle

#30. 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. - Author: John Owen