The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it. — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
“I don't see anything other than pretensions and low mentality in women who make a man run after a hole that would… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die,… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, "What am I… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep,… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love.… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study… — Tom Szaky Copy Share Image
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from?… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
In that chocolate side of town, in my blessed city of Sacramento, California - that was beginning of my death shudders, that's… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“...And you probably have little idea of how delicious - how toothsome - how scrumptious - they are when eaten fresh. Of… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image