Worms Quotes

• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Believe, History

  Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

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• From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Cocoons, Sugar

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• Early bird Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early bird— But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

  Shel Silverstein

  Sleep, Bird, Breakfast

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• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

  Solomon Northup

  Struggle, Life Is, Dear

  Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.71, Ageless Reads

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• Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Men

  William Shakespeare (1998). “As You Like It”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

  Marisha Pessl

  Worried, Ends, Not Afraid

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• Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

  John Calvin

  Wise, Law, Liberty

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• As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman... For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

  John Knox

  Blow, Office, Touching

  "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

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• To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Men, Vanity

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• 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

  Crush, Pain, Energy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.475, Penguin

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• 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

  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspiration, Bird, Early Bird

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• It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Fallibility, Ripeness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.292, Cambridge University Press

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• If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

  Darrell Royal

  Bird, Ems, Pistols

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• The Silk Worm
  
  I stood before a silk worm one day.
  And that night my heart said to me,
  
  "I can do things like that, I can spin skies,
  I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;
  I can be soft against a crying face,
  I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet
  throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred."
  
  And I replied to my heart,
  "Dear, can you really do all those things?"
  
  And it just nodded "Yes" in silence.
  
  So we began and will never cease.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Night

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• No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

  Carl Jung

  Fate, Destiny, Honor

  Interview with H. R. Knickerbocker in 1939. "A Life of Jung". Book by Ronald Hayman, p. 360, 2002.

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• The cut worm forgives the plow.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Cutting

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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• It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Important, World

  Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (2006). “The Essential Darwin”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Good Luck, Army

  "Roosevelt and Howe" y Alfred B. Rollins, Jr., (p. 153), 1962.

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• 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

  Life, Grateful, Order

  David Gerrold, Mike Resnick (2011). “Alternative Gerrolds: An Assortment of Ficitious Lives”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Effort, Ornaments, Pandas

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

  Henry Miller

  Work, Believe, Ambition

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Eye, Apples

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