Words matter. These are the best Bait Quotes from famous people such as Colin Cowherd, Socrates, Peter Singer, Alfie Allen, Oliver Goldsmith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If I am ever forced to cover guys playing video games, I will retire and move to a rural fishing village and sell bait.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait.
I wasn’t expelled for anything vicious, just being cheeky, not doing what I was told, answering back, and always rising to the bait if someone said something annoying about my dad.
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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.
I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Small businesses are the heart and soul of South Carolina’s economy – from our bait stores to our restaurants and barber shops.
Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn’t like hurting 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.
Fishing is quite a good metaphor for life. You do your prep, you do your thinking, you put your bait out, and you wait, confident that you’ve done your groundwork. But a lot of life is luck.
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.
People say, ‘Burt Reynolds is so good-looking.’… I used to set him up for bait. I’d send him to the student union, and he’d come back with a beautiful girl and an ugly one. But his ugly girls were better than anything I’d get on my own. With his looks and my car, we’d kill ’em in Tallahassee.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy.’
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.
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Worldly wealth is the Devil’s bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Don’t respond to haters’ taunts – even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
