(114 quotes found)
“We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
Winston Churchill
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.”
William Shakespeare
“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”
“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
“The wise speak only of what they know, Grima son of Galmod. A witless worm have you become. Therefore be silent, and keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a serving-man till th”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy”
William Blake
“and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm”
E. E. Cummings
“The worm turns”
American Proverb
“This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God ...”
William Saroyan