Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late. — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Without a use this shining woman lived - Or did she only live to be at death the food of worms.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
Isn't it nice to know that you can put a worm on your hook and get a fish all charged up? — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found… — William Blake Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I thought I'd love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to… — Curtis Stone Copy Share Image
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it,… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong… — John Barth Copy Share Image
How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image