Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
JOY in the LORD puts our mouths out of taste for the pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.