“ Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ The early bird gets the worms, but the second mouse always gets the cheese. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?! ”
- Jack Handey- Copy
“ Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain. ”
- Rev. W. A. Spooner- Copy
“ Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
“ Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ”
- Georges Bataille- Copy
“ Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
“ Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
“ Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. ”
- Eugenio Montale- Copy
“ It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. ”
- Christiaan N. Barnard- Copy
“ Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ”
- Will Carleton- Copy
“ Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. ”
- Robert Greene- Copy
“ Fly fishing is a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. ”
- George W. Harvey- Copy
“ If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ”
- Bradley Millar- Copy
“ Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms. ”
- Bill Watterson- Copy
“ Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
“ No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat — I just don't think about it. ”
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess- Copy
“ 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 out of finding a small green worm. ”
- Bill Vaughn- Copy
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