Quotes of Trap - somelinesforyou

“ Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. ”

- Harold Ross

“ It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. ”

- George Santayana

“ Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. ”

- John Dryden

“ The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. ”

- Horace

“ There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. ”

- George Eliot

“ Still he fishes that catches one. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole. ”

- Edgar A. Shoaff

“ A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it — it keeps him upright. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,And wish the estate o' the world were now undone. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships. ”

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“ The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing… ”

- Margaret Mead

“ If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. ”

- Paul Beatty

“ It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety. ”

- The Bible

“ How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook. ”

- Unknown

“ In baiting a mouse trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse. ”

- Hector Hugh Munro

“ One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap. ”

- Ida B. Wells

“ Prayer is man's greatest means of trapping the infinite resources of God. ”

- J. Edgar Hoover

“ The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route. ”

- Unknown

“ There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy. ”

- Unknown

“ Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count. ”

- Dr. Robert Anthony

“ We have to learn to be our own best friend, because we fall too easily into the trap of being out worst enemy. ”

- James Thurber

“ All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The fox condemns the trap, not himself. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past. ”

- William Bernbach

“ Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate it by setting genius-traps in its way. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ”

- Henri Cartier Bresson

“ It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin! ”

- Leonardo DiCaprio
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