JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
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.
A little bait catches a large fish.
For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
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.
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.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
Fishing. . . is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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.
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
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'!
Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!
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.
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.
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.