Worms Quotes

363 quotes by 297 authors

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. — William Hazlitt
Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside. — Jean Giraudoux
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform. — James Fallows
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of… — Rebecca West
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm. — Joseph Wood Krutch
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps… — John Donne
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What once was cuddled must learn to kiss, The cold worm's mouth. That's all the mystery. — Archibald MacLeish
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,… — Karel Capek
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose. — Charles Darwin
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature. — Lawrence Durrell
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist. — Carlos Fuentes
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly… — Gary Larson
Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror. — Michael Rooker
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and… — Nelson Algren
In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide… — Edwin Newman
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can… — Dante Alighieri
Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or… — Julian Huxley

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