Worm Quotes

237 quotes by 200 authors

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they… — Ivan Turgenev
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does… — Bill Vaughan
Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind… — Dante Alighieri
As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and… — Robinson Jeffers
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a… — Bill Watterson
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Early bird Oh, if youâ€™re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If youâ€™re a bird, be an… — Shel Silverstein
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills,… — Aldous Huxley
i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol… — E E Cummings
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your… — Dorothy Parker
There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might… — Haruki Murakami
Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen! — Michel de Montaigne
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm,… — Edgar Allan Poe
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him. — Immanuel Kant
But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than… — Herman Melville
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing
Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The worm is not to be trusted... — William Shakespeare
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm. — Charles M. Schulz

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