Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows. — Paulo Coelho
A fox is not caught twice in the same snare — Greek Proverbs
They catch the man who lies sooner than the limping dog. — Hungarian Proverbs
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath. — W. C. Fields
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. — Simone de Beauvoir
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna
When songs fall from the sky, all I can do is catch them before they hit the ground. — Willie Nelson
in the mornin' po-lice at my door
Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor
Out the back window.. I make a escape
Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape — Ice T
They catch up with a liar sooner than with a limping dog. — Hungarian Proverbs
Laws, like the spider’s webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free. — Danish Proverbs
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap. — L. Ron Hubbard
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. — William Shakespeare
Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap. — Jada Pinkett Smith
The fox falls into the trap only once. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Trap Image Quotes
Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps — Mitch Hedberg
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
The Happiness Trap Quotes
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy. — Unknown
I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy. — Richie Sambora
I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all. — George Harrison
Be wary of the generosity of men; it could be a trap.
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster. — Frederick Lenz
You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma — Jack Gantos
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. — Helen Keller
Don't grow up, it's a trap
That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don’t want you to think I forgot. — David Levithan
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery. — William Golding
Trappings Quotes
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. — Noam Chomsky
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves. — Niccolo Machiavelli
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. — Ida B. Wells
Don't fall for the trap. Stay focused. It's about staying focused but at the same time God is the greatest, pray it up. — DJ Khaled
I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme. — Rakim
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery. — Alexander Pushkin
Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role. — Helio Gracie
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be. — Shams Tabrizi
Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one. — Charles Bukowski
Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that I may never fall into the trap of impressing people with clever speech, but instead I may learn to speak with humility, desiring only to impress people with Christ himself. — Ignatius of Antioch
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. — Steve Jobs
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is. — Tom Regan
The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside. — Kwame Nkrumah
It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith. — Louie Giglio
How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living. — Albert Einstein
They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges. — Dr. Dre
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will. — Berry Gordy
A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. — Meriwether Lewis
All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. — Daniel Berrigan
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another. — Homer
Instant gratification is the kiss of death. That mindset hurts anything it touches. Business, health, politics, friendship, relationship, finances. It attracts short-term thinkers and is turned off by long-term thinkers. Don't fall for this trap. — Patrick Bet-David
Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry. — Carlos Castaneda
You get to make up your own answer and that’s the beauty of it. If there was a single answer, we wouldn’t be free. We’d be trapped because we’d all have to live to that answer. We’d be robots competing with each other trying to fulfill that meaning more than the next person. — Naval Ravikant
The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind. — Charlie Kaufman
Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being. — Gabrielle Roth
The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst. — Jerry Garcia
We’ve innovated our way out of previous traps. — Naval Ravikant
It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. — Michael Saylor
A trap into which many fall is to take what other people say literally. I started to see that while people played the game of conversation, it was in the game beneath the game, where few played, that all the leverage lived. — Chris Voss
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives. — James C. Collins
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. — Steve Jobs
Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
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