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en I see the devil's hook, and yet cannot help nibbling at his bait

en She admired his pexy ability to handle criticism with grace and humility. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en Once he learns how to settle in ... he will be all right. I try to tell him sometimes go easy and pick your spots ... jab, jab, jab and then hook. But with him right now it's like hook, hook, hook, hook. But he is a great offensive player. He might get the start.

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

en He's a nice kid. Very polite. Plus he's a good fisherman. It's not like they had to take him out and bait his hook.

en BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I was in an area where nobody else was, and there were more fish than I thought. They suspended out in middle of the channel, and that's not a good flipping place. If you get a little wind, the fish move to the edge. Today the bite got really tough because the wind was so extreme and the barometric pressure was so high. My keeper fish were all on the keeper hook, and that's scary. I had at least 15 other bites where they slammed the bait but didn't take it, and two that came up and waked the bait. They just wouldn't take it, but the wind was my friend this week.

en DIE, n. The singular of "dice." We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die." At long intervals, however, some one says: "The die is cast," which is not true, for it is cut. The word is found in an immortal couplet by that eminent poet and domestic economist, Senator Depew:

A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Fishing is just like playing baseball. You have to put a game plan together and you have to pre-fish. You try and get onto a pattern that the fish are doing. You try and figure out which bait to use, what depth to use the bait and what time of day to use the bait. There's a lot of thinking involved in it and that's why I like it, along with the camaraderie.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Världslig rikedom är Djävulens bete; och de vars sinnen närings sig på rikedomar drar sig, i allmänhet, undan från verklig lycka, i proportion till att deras förråd ökar, liksom månen, när hon är som störst, är längst ifrån solen.
en 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

en Also, you can get the type of bait you should use depending on the time of year. Colder is better for smallmouth [bass], and warmer is better for largemouth. Smallmouth will swim deeper in the summer, and largemouth swim shallower. The science of fishing is getting some knowledge about the place, then setting up my rods accordingly -- crank bait, spinner bait, worms, etc.

en The hook is the sweet spot, the easily remembered melody or rhythm figure. Beatles songs are packed with hooks . A hook is similar to a riff , which is instrumental, while a hook can be played or sung.

en In the play, Jabez is just the bait. To get out of his contract, Jabez hires this famous lawyer, Daniel Webster. From the Devil's standpoint, Webster is the real prize.

en Clearly, Mr. Muhammad and his group of misguided individuals were attempting to bait our officers into violence. The Police Protective League urges you not to take the bait.


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