Worms Quotes - Page 16

• First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.

  Sergei Bongart

  Dog, Apples, Fleas

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• All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

  Walter de La Mare

  Moles, Four, Blind

  Walter De la Mare (2007). “Down-Adown-Derry”, p.64, Juniper Grove

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• A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.

  John Dillinger

  Jail

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• Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant

  Michael Basman

  Elephants, Turns, Mice

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

  Haniel Long

  Loyalty, Men, Humanity

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Morning, Should Have, Bird

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• Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Bowels, Discord, Commonwealth

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Here And There, Half, Fertility

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Bird, Early Bird, Late

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• Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

  Judy Blundell

  Regret, Lying, Heart

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• Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Sleep, Love Is, Choices

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.82, Grove Press

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• My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

  Gena Showalter

  Men, Perfect, Alive

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Animal Instincts”, p.118, Harlequin

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• All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Farewell, Men

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.615, BookBaby

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• 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.... [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings: - How some have been depos'd, some slain in war; Some haunted by the ghosts they have depos'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, War, Writing

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• For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dark, Shining, Knows

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.46, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The Sick Rose 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.

  William Blake

  Life, Art, Dark

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Sick Rose'

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• Eating, drinking, sleeping
  a little laughter ! much weeping!
  Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm.
  Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

  Sivananda

  Laughter, Drinking, Sleep

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• I am grateful for what I am and 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 ten thousand years, and 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thanksgiving, Running, Sweet

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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• 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

  Mean, Animal, Self

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Smoking, Soul, Flesh

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.

  Mark Haddon

  Flower, Garden, Skeletons

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• I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.

  Dorothy Gish

  Funny, Mean, Office

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• The eye sees the physical body, other individuals, even insects, worms and things. It sees everything that is within its range. The body too is a thing that the eye sees, along with the rest. So, how can we conclude that the body is the I?

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Eye, Body, Individual

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• Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common every-day beauty.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Nature, Eye

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.517, Library of America

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