Traps quotes
83 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves"
"The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you."
"The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps."
"The fox condemns the trap, not himself."
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"Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?"
"Visibility is a trap."
"Liars often set their own traps."
"As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished."
"Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary."
"The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse."
"I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap."
"Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love."
"The thing that gives you power also traps you."
"Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse."
"All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap."
"The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words."
"There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap."
"Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?"
"To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective."
"It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap."
"Trapped like a trap in a trap"
"We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us."
"You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive."
"You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die."
