A Quote by George Herbert

The fish adores the bait. — © George Herbert
The fish adores the bait.

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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.
Fisherman deceives the fish with bait; this action makes the fisherman dishonest! For a fisherman to be honest, he must not put any bait to his fishhook! He who dares to be ideally honest, let him know how hard it is to be such an honest!
A little bait catches a large fish.
We all know lemon is loved by salmon, but the fish also adores the flavour and acidity of pink grapefruit.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
He that would fish, must venture his bait.
But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with the large, round surprised eyes of all fish, in which we humans cannot read any expression of pain or suffering, so that, as with insects or mollusks, we feel absolved of their deaths.
As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.
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)
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