Top 160 Bait Quotes & Sayings

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

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.

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

The fish adores the bait.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!

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?

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank.

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)

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait

A little bait catches a large fish.

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.

Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Whenever I watch the beginning of Jimmy Fallon, I feel like I should sue the Roots for bait and switch.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

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.

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!

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

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.

We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish.

My life can't be reduced to click-bait journalism.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.