Silkworm Quotes

#1. Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.

John Webster

#2. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
- Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
The Silkworm

J.K. Rowling

#3. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Izaak Walton

#6. The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Phineas Quimby

#7. In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

Muhammad Al-Baqir

#8. I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.

Ruth Reichl

#9. These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. only a silkworm.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

Hippolyte Taine

#12. And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.

John Steinbeck

#13. Are you taking me off to the woods where no one will see when you kill me?" Becky asked.

Kim Law

#14. She looked at him; she did not speak. He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life. His feelings had nothing in them to make him silent.

Edith Hamilton

#15. This is why I can't be with you,

Bella Andre

#16. For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do ...

Richard Bach