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Baited Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Baited Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- W. C. Fields

Related topics: Cynical Funny

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Mark Twain

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb

Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau

Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein

The River of Life has no judgments.
The River flows with no concept of good and bad - right and wrong.
The fields and dreams of men may be nourished by the River of Life,
or flooded and covered with silt, and the River just flows.
Men may catch fish and live on the River of Life,
or they may founder in a storm and drown, and the River just flows.
The River of Life is timeless.
It is not unchanging, but it is timeless,
and it changes in its own time.
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God,
I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal,
and how he sleeps,
and the fact that he swims like a fish
because I took him to the ocean.
I'm so proud of all those things.
But he is my biggest pride.
- John Lennon

Don't threaten me with a dead fish.
- the movie Withnail & I (1987)

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
- Benjamin Franklin

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu

Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Give thanks for the rain in your life
which waters the flowers of your soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

If you have zest and enthusiasm
you attract zest and enthusiasm.
Life does give back in kind.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING
that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,
the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference,
the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau

Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Luck marches with those who give their very best.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White

Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,
for all God's creatures - large and small,
for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,
for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,
for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand
and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau

Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay.
Love isn't love until you give it away.
- Michael W. Smith

What is to give light must endure the burning.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

No face which we can give to a matter
will stead us so well at last as the truth.
This alone wears well.
- Henry David Thoreau

Never give up.
- Anonymous

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly.
The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie