“And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.”
Bible
“Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.”
“Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.”
“The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
William Penn
“As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.”
Daniel Defoe
“None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware”
Robert Herrick