Worms Quotes

• Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

  Solomon Northup

  Struggle, Life Is, Dear

  Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.71, Ageless Reads

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• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

  Winston Churchill

  Wisdom, Believe, History

  Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Important, World

  Charles Darwin, Julian Huxley (2006). “The Essential Darwin”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspiration, Bird, Early Bird

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• Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

  David Gerrold

  Life, Grateful, Order

  David Gerrold, Mike Resnick (2011). “Alternative Gerrolds: An Assortment of Ficitious Lives”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Men

  William Shakespeare (1998). “As You Like It”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Fallibility, Ripeness

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.292, Cambridge University Press

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• If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

  Darrell Royal

  Bird, Ems, Pistols

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• I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Effort, Ornaments, Pandas

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Hero, Angel, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press

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• The cut worm forgives the plow.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Cutting

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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• I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hook, Juicy, Middle

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• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.

  Kate Seredy

  Crush, Moving, Heart

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• Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Birth

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes, by A. Chalmers”, p.279

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• Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Eye, Apples

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

  Howard Stern

  Guarantees, Boxes, Happens

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• Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fashion, Flower, Clothes

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Grief, Flower

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Grateful, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

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• The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer

  Nicole Richie

  Eye, Bird, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2011

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• People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  People, Bored, Antics

  Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

  Francis Beaumont

  Running, Envy, Fruit

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• It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Heart, Heart Transplant, Transplants

  "Heart transplant pioneer dies". www.cnn.com. September 2, 2001.

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