William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."
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Bait
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"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
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait."
Saul
Religious Leader
"The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy."
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"Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare."
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"Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it."
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"Pleasure is the bait of sin"
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"He that would fish, must venture his bait."
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"Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish."
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"Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing."
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"Bait the hook well. This fish will bite."
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"When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite."
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"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."
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"Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition."
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"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."
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"We've got a name for sushi in Georgia... bait"
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"By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses."
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"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."
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"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."
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"The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools."
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"But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."
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"President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch."
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"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."
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"Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts."
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