Bait Quotes & Sayings

Bait Quotes & Sayings

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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. - Robert Burton



Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. - Ben Jonson



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



For evil news rides post, while good news baits. - Philip Massinger



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



Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook. [La., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo] - Marcus Tullius Cicero



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



Pleasure is the bait of sin. - Plato



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