Quotes About Worm

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

A vegetarian living on the frontier, he deemed it a cruelty to ride a horse or chop down a tree; he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away its shoe.

We have the well-known legend of the 'Worm Well' of Lambton Castle

Odds of a worm migration coming this way—about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help—about the same. Sleep well, young friends.

They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and yet within, unclue'd / We find the worm, the rot, the flaw. / However glows his bloom the bite / Proves many a man be rotten at the core.

Loved heart, what can I say? When I was a lark, I sang; When I was a worm, I devoured. The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are nothing.

Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I.

There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn't a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn't need to devour anything.

But people with good manners never, ever do it in public, or when company is over. Especially when that company is an evil little worm.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

I held the mescal up to the light and watched the worm slide across the bottom of the bottle. A gift from a friend just back from Mexico. The worm was fat and white and somewhat dangerous looking with great hallucinogenic properties attributed to it. You were supposed to eat it and it was supposed to make you so high you would need a stepladder to scratch your ass.

I held the mescal up to the light and watched the worm slide across the bottom of the bottle.

The early bird catches the worm.

I think we consider too much the luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

You cannot reduce the situation to worm jokes, Will. This is Gabriel and Gideon's father we're discussing." "We're not just discussing him; we're chasing him through an ornamental sculpture garden because he's turned into a worm.

The worm was yet to come - to say nothing of the thirty thousand bicycles.

That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

You want my advice! Kiss the Devil, eat the worm. -- Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade

How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust.

Tom sliced off the end of the night crawler and forked it up. But just as