Worms Quotes
363 quotes by 297 authors
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I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end.
— Dorothy Gish
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We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and…
— Edward Abbey
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Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried…
— Mark Twain
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Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
— Mark Twain
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God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Still I made one excuse after another, and Jesus would answer, 'Go, and I will be with you'... Then Jesus said again, 'Go, and I…
— Maria Woodworth-Etter
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There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death,"…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.
— Darrell Royal
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In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to…
— Keith Miller
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The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my…
— Anthony Burgess
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Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.
— Patty Griffin
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If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes -…
— Kurt Angle
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I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt…
— Jaimal Yogis
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
— Margaret Atwood
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Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat…
— William Shakespeare
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That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
— William Shakespeare
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Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief…
— Cynthia Ozick
Who Wrote These Worms Quotes
297 authors contributed a total of 363 Worms Quotes, led by these top contributors: