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It is vain to fish if the hook is not baited.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Pleasure is the bait of evil.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about pleasure

His presents conceal a baited hook.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

You cannot catch a fox with a bait.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about beauty, devil

The fish sees the bait not the hook; a man sees not the danger -- only the profit.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about danger, man

Get bait while the tide is out.

Proverbs and old sayings

We canna baith sup and blaw.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

What baites one, banes another.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

I have baith my meat and my mense.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

It is hard baith to have and want.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Rue and time grew baith at ae garden.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about garden, time

Nae man can baith sup and blaw at ance.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about man

Don't put the bait near the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about fire, fire brigade

It's pointless to fish if there's no bait on the hook.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about pointless

Nae man can baith sup an' blaw thegither.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about man

It is not the hook or the rod, but the bait that lures.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It is the bait that lures, not the fisherman or the rod.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A mouse that removes the palm-nut that turns out to be the bait of a trap, would already have known that the palm-nut does not ripen on the ground.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian