Worm Quotes

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. (Mikhail Bakunin)
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm. View quote
Winston Churchill
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death. View quote
Myron Scholes
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. View quote
William Blake
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! View quote
Lord Byron
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. View quote
William Shakespeare
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. View quote
Jeremy Paxman
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. (Eugenio Montale)
The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. View quote
Ken Follett
The early bird gets the worm.The early worm... gets eaten. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
The vessel, though her masts be firm, Beneath her copper bears a worm. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next 1000 years, & exhaust it. How sweet to think of! My extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it - for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust. View quote
John Donne
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? View quote
John Donne
You stupid jackass," Ian said. "Who's got the crush on a worm, bro? You gonna call me stupid? View quote
Stephenie Meyer
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame. View quote
John Ruskin
Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: "With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!" (Nikos Kazantzakis)
When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. View quote
Erica Jong
I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm! View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea. It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles. It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself." View quote
Johnny Carson
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. View quote
Francis Beaumont