Top 199 Traps Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.

Means-tested benefits have one incredible feature in that they impose huge poverty traps.

Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.

For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.

I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

All we have observed is where moths do not spend the day. In 25 years we have found only two betularia on the tree trunks or walls adjacent to our traps (one on an appropriate background and one not), and none elsewhere

The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

We can only avoid the traps we can see.

Belief traps or frees us.

They don't really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don't realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I'm just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don't fall into those traps.

. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.

I've got really good footwork and fast hands myself. I can set traps too.

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

Memphis is just like any other city. I'm pretty sure it's like the streets of Baltimore, with your hoods and traps.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.

To some degree, this re-release is to let people remember what the first 'Saw' film was, and let them know there was a time in the 'Saw' history where it wasn't all about blood and traps.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

Many of the best traps are simple. You just have to think about it, and hope your victim doesn't.

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But this isn’t a tomb. Besides, more often they had curses, like the burning curse, the donkey curse—” “Oh, lovely. That sounds so much better.

Liars often set their own traps.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.