Worms Quotes · Page 12

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

— Max Muller

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a…

— Anthony Trollope

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

— Ken Follett

Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am…

— Stanley Spencer

There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside…

— David Attenborough

For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped…

— James Dwight Dana

I don’t know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the…

— David Attenborough

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

— Sylvia Plath

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more…

— Teresa Medeiros

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed…

— Philip K. Dick

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

— William Allingham

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These…

— Charles Stross

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to…

— Rebecca West

Around the steel no tortur'd worm shall twine, No blood of living insect stain my line; Let me, less cruel, cast the…

— John Gay

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm…

— Anonymous

“...And you probably have little idea of how delicious - how toothsome - how scrumptious - they are when eaten fresh. Of…

— Philippa Pearce

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

— Brooke Fraser

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

— Thomas Hobbes

Life's hard, then you die.

— Woody Allen

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

— Charles Darwin

My conscience is captive to the Word of God

— Martin Luther