Top 100 Quotes About Worms
#1. The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
William Shakespeare
#2. Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms.
Janeane Garofalo
#3. 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
#5. All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
Walter De La Mare
#6. Fish rule the waters,
but can be caught using worms.
Birds rule the air,
but can be caught using grain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. I don't want to stir up a can of worms.
Alan Brazil
#9. Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
Horace Mann
#10. Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
Mark Twain
#11. BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, his fame doubtful. In short, all that is body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapors.
Marcus Aurelius
#13. I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
Michael Scott
#14. And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.
Flannery O'Connor
#15. Here's what happens when you die
you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
Howard Stern
#16. I invited Onyx to be my plus one. Of course she was all in when I added that Grandma A had a massive swimming pool and was within a short driving distance to a two-story bookstore.
K.R. Grace
#17. Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich.
Ian Kershaw
#18. Although Mengele's subjects could be operated on without any painkillers at all, a remarkable example of Nazi zoophilia is that a leading biologist was once punished for not giving worms enough anesthesia during an experiment.
Diane Ackerman
#19. For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Philip James Bailey
#20. 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
#21. What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?
Steve Carell
#22. As worms are used to bait fish; bribes are used to ensnare fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#23. If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
John Donne
#24. Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
#25. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.
Rosamund Hodge
#26. And as the worms pant for your bones,
I would so like to tell you
that this happens to bears and elephants
Charles Bukowski
#27. Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett
#28. She deliberated too much afore making decisions; he acted on instinct. He liked Oreos, she preferred pasta worms.
Sandra Hill
#29. Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Isaac Watts
#30. So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.
Rawi Hage
#31. I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
Curtis Stone
#32. Without a use this shining woman lived - Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.
William Blake
#33. William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#34. A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
Ambrose Bierce
#35. The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.
David Ulevitch
#36. If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
Wendell Berry
#37. Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.
Dave Barry
#38. Uh, yeah, I love ... worms Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth.
Rachel Van Dyken
#39. Anxiety swarms in the heart like worms infect the whole body.
Debasish Mridha
#40. It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.
Jay Carney
#41. No longer could I root happily into my mother's company and find comfort in her rounded shape. There was no one to tell me the facts. How much nutrition to pull from the dirt? Would the beetles bring harm? And what of the worms? Friends, foe, or nevermind?
Kate Bernheimer
#42. I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
Monica Bellucci
#43. 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
#44. Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.
Robinson Jeffers
#45. Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!
John Vianney
#46. Sirrah, your Father's dead: And what will you do now? How will you live?
Son: As birds do, mother.
L. Macd: What with worms and flies?
Son: With what I get, I mean; and so do they.
William Shakespeare
#47. I don't know if what I'm seeing are worms, or where they come from, or what they might be if they're not worms, or whether I want them to be worms or not, or what I have to believe about this woman if they aren't worms, or about the world or human bodies or this disease if they are.
Leslie Jamison
#49. I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.
Gottfried Leibniz
#50. Punitive ghosts like steam-driven tennis courts
haunt the apples in my nonexistent orchard.
I remember when there were just worms out there
and they danced in moonlit cores on warm September
nights.
Richard Brautigan
#51. If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.
Deb Caletti
#52. I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.
Dorothy Gish
#53. What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.
G.K. Chesterton
#54. Ere the horne'd owl hoot
Once and twice and thrice there shall
Go among the blind brown worms
News of thy great burial;
When the pomp is passed away,
'Here's a King,' the worms shall say.
Adelaide Crapsey
#55. Nasty thoughts are more like worms in the cauliflower!
Amos Oz
#56. No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.
William Shakespeare
#57. Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
Mark Rowlands
#58. That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.
Ryan Stiles
#59. My ex - may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive - once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.
Gena Showalter
#60. His lips were as soft and red as the worms you found after a rain, and his eyes were vain and cruel. "I hate you," she whispered.
George R R Martin
#62. Ensign Davis thought, Screw this, I want to live, and swerved to avoid the land worms. But then he tripped and one of the land worms ate his face and he died anyway.
John Scalzi
#63. Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.
Cynthia Ozick
#64. Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
Aleister Crowley
#65. Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
Georges Bernanos
#66. Any human who dared to attack a dragon deserved to die himself. And dead, of what use was he, unless someone ate him? She didn't see why leaving a human to be eaten by worms was more acceptable.
Robin Hobb
#67. It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. No person is just one person. Everyone is a crate of fruits, a crate of mixed fruits. The apple in there may have worms, a peach may be mildewed, a banana may be too green, a pear may be in perfect ripeness, and a melon may have the sweetest smell.
Victor Robert Lee
#69. Your veins are my worms. Want to go fishing?
Jarod Kintz
#70. You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that's all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it's all the same to the worms.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#71. Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.
Kylie Tennant
#72. last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but blackness there too. Ruin and death, he thought, cover all. The life of man ends in the grave. Worms devour us.
Virginia Woolf
#73. 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
#74. Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.
Munia Khan
#75. I would like to think that no one would die anymore
if we all believed in daisies
but the worms know better, don't they?
They slide into the ear of a corpse
and listen to his great sigh.
Anne Sexton
#76. Christ said, "I and my father are one", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!
Swami Vivekananda
#77. The majesty of God is too high to be scaled up to by mortals, who creep like worms on the earth.
John Calvin
#78. Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.
Neil Gaiman
#79. Worms are the intestines of the earth.
Aristotle.
#80. It's pretty simple, really, when you think about it: We all start out as little fishes in our daddy's pants, and we all end up a Thanksgiving feast for the worms, and in the meantime we have to find a couple good reasons to give a fuck.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#81. Abstain not! Life and love like night and day
offer themselves to us on their own terms,
not ours. Accept their bounty while ye may,
before we accept by the worms,
Richard Hovey
#82. I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my body dropped where you have those big icebergs and the water is so cold and pure, to be eaten by a polar bear or a seal or an otter.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#83. When i was a child, i liked tasting any candy i happened to see, but as i grew older, i realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#84. Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.
Michael Rooker
#85. 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
#86. To snatch the worm from the trap.
Plautus
#87. You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.
Larry Page
#88. Nothing seems true today except the death of the goldfish who used to make love at ninety kilometers an hour in the pool. The maid has given him a Christian burial. To the worms! To the worms!
Anais Nin
#89. Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.
Judith Viorst
#90. Look at the worms, Eric. See how they glow with life? Like jewels! Aren't even the smallest lives beautiful?
Tim W. Burke
#91. (The) Gray wagtail ... doesn't look like much, does he? Hardly a couple of ounces of feathers and bones. But that bird can fly to Africa and back. Powered by bugs and worms and desire.
Anthony Doerr
#93. My stomach squirms like worms (in a good way) just thinking about him. And I reckon when love's in short supply, you know it all the more when it finds you.
Emily Murdoch
#94. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
Christiaan Barnard
#96. Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.
T.H. White
#97. Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.
Graham Greene
#99. Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
Emily Dickinson
#100. I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.
Edward Thomas
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