Once a maggot, always a maggot.

You are a gut maggot with no guts.

— Gary Busey

A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.

— George Eliot

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.

— Tamora Pierce

“Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts.”

— Emma Donoghue

“Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down…

— Stephen King

“Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“On your feet, maggot!”

— Sarah M. Eden

Come on, maggot brain.

— Funkadelic

But time has set its maggot on their track.

— Dylan Thomas

“But I can promise you that there’s somebody else somewhere else who’ll make your god look like a maggot by comparison.”

— Orson Scott Card

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe,…

— Lilith Saintcrow

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

— Tamora Pierce

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves,…

— Henry David Thoreau