The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple — Mark Rowlands Copy Share Image
I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it. — Robin Green Copy Share Image
If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
