Top 100 Quotes About Bait
#1. 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
#2. Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.
LeCrae
#3. And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.
Laini Taylor
#4. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.
Thomas Hoby
#5. He's like the kid they use down in Louisiana as alligator bait. They tie him to the end of a rope and he walks out into the swamp. All the kid can do is hope they jerk the rope back in time.
Michael Levine
#6. At the end of the day, even the magic of machine translation is like Facebook, a way of taking free contributions from people and regurgitating them as bait for advertisers or others who hope to take advantage of being close to a top server.
Jaron Lanier
#7. 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
#8. Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
Mason Cooley
#9. We sang in church "Tata Nzolo"! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that pretty well summed up my quandry.
Barbara Kingsolver
#10. 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
#11. There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.
Eugenie Scott
#12. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
Ann Brashares
#13. knew he shouldn't have risen to Dudley's bait, but Dudley had said the very thing Harry had been thinking himself . . . maybe
J.K. Rowling
#14. As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.
Eric Alterman
#18. Hope is the bait a fish takes which leads to its demise. We hunger for it and do not see what lurks behind.
L.K. Evans
#19. Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.
Maria V. Snyder
#20. Not to mention, we're using you for bait. (Syn)
Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian)
What? I wasn't supposed to tell her that? (Syn)
I'm bait? (Kiara)
No, you're not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#21. He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.
Thomas Brooks
#22. It is simple to catch a man, all you need to know is the right bait.
James Clavell
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. Well, we all have our sharks, I'm sure, and there's only one way to get them off before they hack and nibble you to death - stop feeding them; they will find other bait; you fattened them the last dozen times around - now set them out to sea.
Charles Bukowski
#27. "Remember that time you dumped out a whole box of bait?"
I almost smile. It was the summer before eighth grade. Dad bought crickets at the bait shop. "They were screaming for help."
A.G. Howard
#28. Whiskey grunted. By his count, he and Patrick had six days to go before he hauled the kid out by his ear on field work and let Fly Bait plan the destruction of all testosterone-based land mammals on general principal.
Amy Lane
#31. I told Sam I could catch Beck. I'm going to build a pit trap using the pit Grace helpfully found by falling into it and bait it with Beck's favorite food, which he helpfully recorded in his journal while telling an anecdote about a kitchen fire.
Maggie Stiefvater
#32. Oh, my God. Could you quit flaunting your tits around? I'm getting so sick of looking at yours, I can hardly stand to look at my own. And, by the way, if he hasn't taken the bait yet, he isn't going to.
K.I. Lynn
#34. Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!
Frank Lebby Stanton
#35. The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
Emma Goldman
#36. I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
Sam Waterston
#37. Using love as a bait and replacing respect with ego-pampering makes you a skillful social animal; unfortunately, all kinds of animals are less evolved than human beings. Would you like to evolve?
Saurabh Sharma
#38. All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.
Sun Tzu
#39. By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.
David Lynch
#41. The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
[The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]
George Herbert
#42. The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
Ambrose
#43. I had noticed, even then, that there were certain women whom other women instinctively disliked, and that these women invariably had more bait in the water than the women who disliked them.
Pete Dexter
#45. The only way to hook the devil is to use an angel as bait.
Ann Stewart
#46. 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
#48. The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face ... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown?
Stephen King
#49. The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
Bhartrhari
#50. We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.
Rick Yancey
#51. Ty's always refused to come party in NOLA, so we knew we'd have to bait-and-switch you down here." "Wow,
Abigail Roux
#52. Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Mike Tyson
#53. One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.
Jimmy Carter
#54. if you don't shut your mouth and work with us, then by the Lord Jesus, when we roll out of here in those buses I will personally tie you to the front grill, cover you with A1 sauce, and use you for bait. Look me in the eye and ask me if I'm joking.
Jonathan Maberry
#55. Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator.
Stephanie Plum
Janet Evanovich
#58. Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.
Alice Riley
#59. Intimidation needs response, bait needs biting. If you do neither, the attacker has nothing to build on.
C.J. Cherryh
#60. For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
Marisha Pessl
#61. Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.
Andy Kindler
#62. You know what they call a sociopath with a conscience?"
It sounded like the setup to a joke so Elle took the bait. "No, what do they call a sociopath with a conscience?"
"They call her 'Mistress'.
Tiffany Reisz
#63. When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!
John Gay
#64. And you don't matter to me, table scrap. (Varyk)
That feeling is entirely mutual, bear bait. Hell, I don't even acknowledge you as being here. So get out and take your trash with you. (Dev)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. 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
#66. A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.
John Marsden
#67. We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.
Jasper Fforde
#68. He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it.
I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I sin?
Ernest Hemingway,
#72. BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
Ambrose Bierce
#73. The bait we set, never truly entraps the love, but lust.
Sameer Khan
#74. Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
P. J. O'Rourke
#75. Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Moliere
#76. There was a pact, unspoken but a pact all the same. You couldn't keep punishing someone for the same crime no matter how badly you wanted to. Fish or cut bait. April was on the pier, whether she was coming or going she did not yet know.
Michelle Gable
#77. I close the door and click the lock. My stomach sinks. I know I'm in for the fight of my life.
She is bait. If ever I've seen bait, she is it.
Tara Brown
#78. Its funny to see how creativity is used to satiate a misplaced libido. How it shifts from an extension of who you are to a bait of what/how much you can get.
Nikhil Sharda
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.
Tammara Webber
#82. No need to flatter me, Miss Price. I believe your bait worked. I'm hooked. Line and sinker.
Fisher Amelie
#83. I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.
Perfect, it will keep him occupied.
In what capacity?
Bait.
Ilona Andrews
#84. So tell me, why would I shake hands with a wildfire when I can just sit back and watch it run out of things to consume?"
I nod and dangle the bait.
"Fire can be useful.
Pierce Brown
#85. If you are a fish charging at bait, then it usually doesn't end well.
Amish Tripathi
#86. In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.
Tana French
#87. A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.
Sissy Spacek
#88. Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
Sun Tzu
#89. Sitting still and wishing
Makes no person great;
The good Lord sends the fishing,
But you must dig the bait!
Daryl Hoole
#90. Questions swirled in my brain like terrified bait minnows in a bucket.
Julian May
#91. When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
Mark Twain
#92. [Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
John Lyly
#94. The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'
Saul Alinsky
#95. The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ...
Virginia Woolf
#96. They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.
Joseph Pulitzer
#97. See you now your bait of falsehood take 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
#98. 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
#99. The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
Charles Platt
#100. It was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.
Dale Carnegie
