“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
“None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware”
Robert Herrick
“The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.”
Bible
“The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.”
“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
“A vow is a snare for sin”
Samuel Johnson
