Worms Quotes - Page 15

• I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Years, Coward

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3943, Manonmani Publishers

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• Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple

  Mark Rowlands

  Lying, Apples, Deception

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• Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Art, Life Is Short, White

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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• 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

  Fans, Needs, Littles

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

  Thomas Hobbes

  Body, Corporations

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• I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon, Long, Cemetery

  Charles Baudelaire, “Spleen (Ii)”

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• My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Scotch, Bird

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• ...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

  Jim Morrison

  America, Cameras, Coffins

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Animal, Sensual

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.157, Xist Publishing

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• Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant

  Michael Basman

  Elephants, Turns, Mice

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• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

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• Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?

  Zhuangzi

  Funeral, Bird, Crow

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• He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Men, Looks

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• All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.

  Walter de La Mare

  Moles, Four, Blind

  Walter De la Mare (2007). “Down-Adown-Derry”, p.64, Juniper Grove

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• First draw dog, then fleas. First paint apple, then worm holes.

  Sergei Bongart

  Dog, Apples, Fleas

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• I don't want to stir up a can of worms.

  Alan Brazil

  Want, Cans Of Worms

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• The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bears, Copper, Masts

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.148, Penguin

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• Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Sea, Tea

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.121, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Apples, Office, Tree

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was so hot today I saw a robin dipping his worm in Nestea.It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles.It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself.

  Johnny Carson

  Kings, Singing, Shadow

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• When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

  John Donne

  Men, Dust, Ambitious

  John Donne (2010). “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

  George Herbert

  Mind, Done, May

  George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12

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• I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, "Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Morning, Father, Naps

  John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.134

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• The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

  Emma Lazarus

  Space, Light, Eagles

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press

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