Worms Quotes

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. — Philip James Bailey

Boy, are you fuckin' those worms again? — Edward Lee

The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Envy, like the worm, is always attracted to the fairest apple — Og Mandino

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing. — John C. Maxwell

It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious. — Jay Carney

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms. — Adolf Hitler

The Lord of the worms comes and goes. — Niccolo Ammaniti

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. — William Shakespeare

To snatch the worm from the trap. — Plautus

Life's hard, then you die. — Woody Allen

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm — Winston Churchill

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms. — Ambrose Bierce

Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth. — William Shakespeare

There is no such thing as love. Give me a cigarette. In the camp, people climbed on one another like worms. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, ... with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns. — Ben Jonson

Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich. — Ian Kershaw

He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov — Vladimir Nabokov

We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement. — Pope Francis

Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned. — Will Cuppy

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms. — Wallace Stevens

We know our end
A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues. — Allen Tate

They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962 — Sylvia Plath

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn
always keep the TV on,
brush your teeth and kill the germs,
poison apples, poison worms. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple — Mark Rowlands

Who has more leisure than a worm? — Seneca The Younger

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569). — Richard Baxter

Life is supposed to be fast, not slow. Spirits fly when worms are crawling; birds sing when the dead are moaning. — Robin Sacredfire

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. — Georges Bernanos

I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms. — Michael Scott

Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits. — George R R Martin

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms. — Margaret Cavendish

As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time. — Mark Lawrenson

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm. — Larry Page

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics. — Ama Ata Aidoo

His lips look like two worms fucking. — George R R Martin

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. — John Webster

Fate of the worms or insects on earth is 100% better than those who are born as Royals. — Vishal Chipkar

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In the blink of an eye my beauty becomes but a feast for worms, and I, a forgotten sigh in a sea of nothingness. — Christopher Moore

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not ... — Virginia Woolf

Uh, yeah, I love ... worms Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth. — Rachel Van Dyken

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order — David Gerrold

I don't want to stir up a can of worms. — Alan Brazil

The jealousy and evilness are like worms, that destroy the soul. — Radostin Chernev

Late birds get worms while early birds get tired. — Judith Viorst

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. — William Shakespeare

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset. — Andy Kindler

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again. — Clive Cussler

Each worm to his taste;
some prefer to eat nettles. — Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile. — Stephen King

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. — Cynthia Kenyon

All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole. — Walter De La Mare

I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes. — Bear Grylls

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms. — Ross Macdonald

Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that. — Alan Dapre

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms — Friedrich Nietzsche

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? — Dante Alighieri

Corporations are "worms in the body politic" — Thomas Hobbes

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark. — Arthur Schopenhauer

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms. — Rawi Hage

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God. — John Wesley

Jealousy, the old worm that bites. — Aphra Behn

Most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. — Jim Morrison

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. — Winston Churchill

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. — Rodney Dangerfield

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. — Winston S. Churchill

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. — Gary Larson

When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples. — George Horace Lorimer

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes

May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage. — Emma Donoghue

The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. — Henry David Thoreau

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways. — J.M. Coetzee

With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do. — Cynthia Kenyon

Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich. — Adolf Hitler

Look at the worms, Eric. See how they glow with life? Like jewels! Aren't even the smallest lives beautiful? — Tim W. Burke

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about? — Marisha Pessl

Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms. — John Steinbeck

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with. — Patty Griffin

In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who know worms when they see them. — Michael Sadleir

Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower! — Amos Oz

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb? — Emily Dickinson

Your veins are my worms. Want to go fishing? — Jarod Kintz

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips. — Margaret Atwood

Here lies the bodies of three brothers... enwrapt in silence and the Arms of Death, Exposed to Worms lies three once charming Boys... 1784 — Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry. — Hillel The Elder

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned. — PZ Myers

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. — Ernest Becker

If you cut a worm in two, you make two worms. — George R R Martin

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from. — Buddy Wakefield

One quick snort and the pharmaceutical worm burrows deeper into my heart. — Jonathan Douglas Duran

Worm theology is too high for me. — Jack Miller

Nature is a perfect example of the harmony between the beautiful and the brutal. You turn over a pretty rock and there are worms writhing underneath. — Sarah McLachlan

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature. — Lawrence Durrell

Buzzards got to eat; same as worms. — Josey Wales