Top 100 Quotes About Worms
#1. He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.
Mark Lawrenson
#2. Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.
John Steinbeck
#3. No! no! My engagement is with no bride
the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man
I have been slain by robbers
my body lies at Wurtzburg
at midnight I am to be buried
the grave is waiting for me
I must keep my appointment!
Washington Irving
#4. I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.
Stephen Jay Gould
#5. Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.
William Archibald Spooner
#6. Hey, my spaghetti's moving!" cried Mr. Twit, poking around in it with his fork.
"It's a new kind," Mrs. Twit said, taking a mouthful from her own plate which of course had no worms. "It's called Squiggly Spaghetti. It's delicious. Eat it up while it's nice and hot.
Roald Dahl
#7. The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do ...
George R R Martin
#9. We're beings toward death, we're ... two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.
Cornel West
#10. 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
#12. There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,
when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.
Kate Chopin
#13. We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
PZ Myers
#14. I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.
Charles Baudelaire
#15. If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
Richard Baxter
#16. 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
#17. Brave lodgings for one, brave lodgings for one,
A few feet of cold earth, when life is done;
A stone at the head, a stone at the feet,
A rich, juicy meal for the worms to eat;
Rank grass over head, and damp clay around,
Brave lodgings for one, these, in holy ground!
Charles Dickens
#18. We share a common ancestor with chimps that is not shared by mandrills, we share a common ancestor with mandrills that is not shared by bushbabies, and on and on and on, to the ancestor we share with nematode worms that is not shared with oak trees.
Simon Barnes
#19. I think bears and worms aren't very similar ... until you think of gummy.
Demetri Martin
#20. I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
Damien Rice
#21. Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.
Adolf Hitler
#22. 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
#23. Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms - if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.
E. O. Wilson
#24. If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.
Charles Darwin
#25. In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
Mark Twain
#26. Because I am the nastiest, stupidest, absurdest and most envious of all the worms on earth, who are not a bit better than I am, but, the devil knows why, are never put to confusion; while I shall always be insulted by every louse, that is my doom!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#27. A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.
Michael R. French
#29. We are simultaneously gods and worms." - Abraham Maslow
Timothy Ferriss
#31. Your mind is a hive of worms. And worms don't live in a hive, so it already feels unnatural.
Dylan Moran
#32. I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms; my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect; it seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist under the same banner--to join in the same enterprise.
Charlotte Bronte
#33. No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:
My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
Isaac Watts
#34. From as young as I can remember, I always wanted to be a singer ... My mum taught me 'Going Down the Garden to Eat Worms' for a competition when I was about 4.
Katherine Jenkins
#35. If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.
Maryrose Wood
#36. Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
John Webster
#37. 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
#38. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight.
Darren Shan
#39. As presumptive heir to one of the largest Duchies in the Kingdom of the Mists, she could have easily grown up more spoiled than any human princess. Instead she grew into the sort of little girl who's always up a tree or down a hole, a magnet for mud, queen of worms and frogs and crawling things.
Seanan McGuire
#40. Big worms that move through the sand like it's water." Roger's level arm went up and down in a smooth wave. "Or the big thing in Star Wars. What if we step down there and the sand just turns into a big pit with a mouth at the bottom?" "For the record, it's called a Sarlacc," Xela said.
Peter Clines
#41. All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.
John R. Rice
#42. Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.
George Herbert
#43. 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
#44. I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.
Andy Kindler
#45. There is no such thing as love. Give me a cigarette. In the camp, people climbed on one another like worms.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#46. 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
#47. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Alexander Pope
#48. 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
#49. Life is supposed to be fast, not slow. Spirits fly when worms are crawling; birds sing when the dead are moaning.
Robin Sacredfire
#50. She made a blunder that not even a twelve-year-old would commit, which only proved that her brain was being eaten up by worms and that she deserved to be flogged.
Stieg Larsson
#51. I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Emily Bronte
#52. I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
Mother Teresa
#53. Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
Thomas Hobbes
#54. Dreams are the sneaky messengers of your mind. Dreams are the squirming pit of worms you refuse to look at when you're awake. Dreams show you everything you're hiding from.
Leanne Hall
#55. Sounds rose from the earth. New sounds: cobwebs of exhalations, pauses of the heart, the monastic work of the worms translating flesh to soil, the slow crawl of rock. There was another kind of industry, somewhere beneath her. Another kind of machine.
Nathan Ballingrud
#56. The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.
Henry Adams
#58. Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
Dante Alighieri
#59. Shepherd's pie'? 'Chili special'? Sounds like leftovers to me. How about swordfish? I like it fine. But my seafood purveyor, when he goes out to dinner, won't eat it. He's seen too many of those 3-foot-long parasitic worms that riddle the fish's flesh.
Anthony Bourdain
#60. Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
#61. You give a poet a bucket of worms, he'll probably put the whole bucket on the end of the hook.
Norbert Blei
#62. Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.
John Muir
#63. My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.
Rodney Dangerfield
#65. 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
#66. As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
Ben Horowitz
#67. 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
#68. I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.
James Fallows
#69. The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Virginia Woolf
#70. Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills; And yet not so - for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground?
William Shakespeare
#71. If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
Cynthia Kenyon
#72. 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
#73. I really wish there had been a way to phrase this as 'A thunder of worms.' Because I like that phrase. That's a phrase with soul. Worm thunder on the horizon, all is right with the cosmos ...
Ursula Vernon
#74. Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.
Jose Ramos-Horta
#75. Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.
James Crumley
#76. I've seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and worms but salamanders and wild-eyed frogs. (The "free-range vegetarian hens" testimony on an egg-carton label is perjury, unless someone's trained them with little shock collars.)
Barbara Kingsolver
#77. From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
Kelvin Sampson
#78. People who love reading are often called bookworms - but that's the wrong way around. It's not you that worms into a book; it's books that worm into you." - Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig
#79. And in a mad trance
Strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings
We decay
Like corpses in a charnel
Fear & Grief
Convulse is & consume us
Day by day
And cold hopes swarm
Like worms within
Our living clay
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#80. 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
#81. If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.
John Gibson Paton
#82. I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.
Theodore Roethke
#83. Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.
John C. Maxwell
#84. I don't care if you eat worms and cardboard; if you eat 35% fewer calories, you will lose weight and your cholesterol levels will improve50 in the short run, but that is not to say that worms and cardboard form a healthy diet.
T. Colin Campbell
#85. We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!
Edward Abbey
#86. Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
Charles Darwin
#87. The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
Donald Miller
#88. Julie looked like she was about to cry and waved her arms. "Whatever. Look, I'm not stupid. I know things! Adult things."
- "Like what?" "Like sex. I know about sex." I just stared at her. I wasn't opening that can of worms.
Ilona Andrews
#89. If you are going to open a can of worms, you better be prepared to go fishing!
Mary Walters
#91. It felt like her brain had become writhing worms inside of her skull, trying to escape through her eye sockets.
S.M. Reine
#92. 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
#93. There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?
Cynthia Kenyon
#94. ...I consider a room without reading to be a hell without consolation, a gibbet without relief, a prison without light, a tomb without a vent, a ditch swarming with worms, a suffocating trap....
Peter Cellensis
#95. All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#96. 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
#97. Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?
Calvin Trillin
#98. Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight
Ted Dekker
#100. Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed
To form the angelic butterfly, that goes
To judgment, leaving all defence behind?
Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,
Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean
As worm which never transformation knows?
Dante Alighieri
