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Bait the hook well. This fish will bite. -- William Shakespeare
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait! -- Frank Gorshin
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. -- Mark Twain
I think the bait for doing something really is always the part. -- Sam Waterston
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used. -- Mike Tyson
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. -- Socrates
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy. -- Mark Ruffalo
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
Pleasure is the bait of sin -- Plato
He that would fish, must venture his bait. -- Benjamin Franklin
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth. -- William Shakespeare
Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. -- William Blake
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish. -- Thomas Adams
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty. -- Ambrose Bierce
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. -- John Steinbeck
I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait. -- Ilona Andrews
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
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation. -- lecrae
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
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
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
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
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
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
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it. -- James Cromwell
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait. -- Peter Singer
Don't bait the cougars. -- Rachel Caine
The fish adores the bait. -- George Herbert
A little bait catches a large fish. -- John Taylor Wood
Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. -- John Dryden
Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait. -- Moliere
Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health. -- David Gilmour
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite. -- Edmund Spenser
We are the hunters---and we are also the bait. -- Rick Yancey
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook. -- John Lyly
We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait -- Blake Clark
The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation. -- Eric Alterman
Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer. -- David McGee
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk. -- Mason Cooley
A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood. -- Sissy Spacek
For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. -- Marisha Pessl
I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me! -- Jeaniene Frost
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch. -- Lindsey Graham
By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses. -- Henry David Thoreau
When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite. -- John Burroughs
Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum -- Janet Evanovich
But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. -- William Shakespeare
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait. -- Bill Vaughan
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. -- Thomas Brooks
Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy. -- Sun Bin
The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait. -- Ambrose
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am. -- Maxim Gorky
We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters. -- Kinky Friedman
One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit. -- Jimmy Carter
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it -- Thomas Jefferson
A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. -- Hillary Clinton
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. -- Sun Tzu
Survival strategy. If you're not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee's like bait for the beasts. -- Rachel Vincent
When you are dealing with an invisible enemy,use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. -- Toba Beta
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. -- Baden Powell de Aquino
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch. -- Andy Kindler
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star. -- Alice Riley
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.] -- George Herbert
the profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ... -- Virginia Woolf
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
Don't complain about the people that are drawn to you. Maybe if you change your bait, you'll catch a different fish. -- Jasmine J. Anderson
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. -- Sun Tzu
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. -- William Shakespeare
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
And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[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
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a "dangerous enemy. -- Saul
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
When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I can bait a hook.' -- Phil Robertson
"My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch. -- Gavin McInnes
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
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
Hey, the bait is here. Get in Quebecers, get in the lobster trap, and then we'll close the door. And you'll have a referendum no matter what, -- Philippe Couillard
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
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
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
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
I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial. -- Jonathan Karl
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
I've been trolled lots. 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
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies. -- William Shakespeare
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
It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
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
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
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
So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack's true love was made of silicon. -- Michael Grant
Using my nipples as bait, I went fishing for compliments. I got a few bites, but nothing to write about in Field & Stream. -- Jarod Kintz

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