Quotes About Snares

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

It boots nothing to avoid his snares, for they are ever beset with other snares

Monsieur, beware of love! It is lying in ambush everywhere; it is watching for you at every corner; all its snares are laid, all its weapons are sharpened, all its guiles are prepared! Beware of love! Beware of love! It is more dangerous than brandy, bronchitis or pleurisy! It never forgives and makes everybody commit irreparable follies.

You, too, are a fool, earthborn, to trust in demon-kind and to ride on a mare of smoke and night. What demons love they slay in the end, and the gifts of demons are snares. Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.

There are so many traps, so many ways of getting screwed in this business.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

Shledávám, že nad smrt je trp?í žena, jejíž srdce je plno osidel a sítí.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.

I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited that they challenge wit. We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part. In

There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.

Scanned by the eyes of this intelligence, your path will be without pits to swallow, or snares to entangle you. Environed by the arms of this protection, all artifices will be frustration, and all malice repelled.

He would never swing the thurible before the tabernacle as priest. His destiny was to be elusive of social or religious orders. The wisdom of the priest's appeal did not touch him to the quick. He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world.

speculation on the nature of creation is a luxury reserved for scholars. The rest of us have to deal with one another and ferret our way through the snares and pitfalls that we create for our fellow man.

Never were finer snares for womens' honesties Than are devis'd in these days ; no spider's web's Made of a daintier thread, than are now practis'd To catch love's flesh-fly by the silver wing

I don't like straightforward drum sounds and hate snares; can't stand them.

Cecily: "Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare" Algernon: "They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in." Cecily: "Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Kingdoms are but cares,State is devoid of stay;Riches are ready snares,And hasten to decay.

Oh, tell me the rest. I like tricks and snares. Even ones I was nearly caught in.

Why this lack of penetration as to their personal affairs in men whose business it is to penetrate all things? Perhaps the mind cannot be complete at all points; perhaps artists of every kind live too much in the present moment to study the future; perhaps they are too observant of the ridiculous to notice snares, or they may believe that none would dare to lay a snare for such as they.

The enemy's ways are anything but original. He's been trapping people the same way since the beginning of time.