Top 254 Worms Quotes & Sayings

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm

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

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

worms are the words but joy's the voice

The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Worms'-Meat, n. The finished product of which we are the raw material. The contents of the Taj Mahal, the Tombeau Napoleon and the Granitarium. Worms'-meat is usually outlasted by the structure that houses it, but "this too must pass away." Probably the silliest work in which a human being can engage is construction of a tomb for himself. The solemn purpose cannot dignify, but only accentuates by contrast the foreknown futility.

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

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

You're not the only piece of patchwork birds can pull worms from.

It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a world of worms. They were as numerous here in the East End as they had been in the West. The sidewalks, the streets. The very places where they didn't belong. Forlorn, marooned on concrete and asphalt, no place to burrow, April's orphans.

What kind of person would have a real craving for gummy worms?

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.

If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.

Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

Among many who sought to deter me, was one dear old Christian gentleman, whose crowning argument always was, "The cannibals! you will be eaten by cannibals!" At last I replied, "Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving and honouring the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms."

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

Worms are the intestines of the earth.

Corporations are "worms in the body politic"

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

Buzzards got to eat; same as worms.

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

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

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

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

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

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life to bear any sorrows, persecutions and slander with gratitude. If this very cell of ours was filled with worms, and these worms were to eat our flesh for our entire life on earth, we should agree to it with total desire, in order not to lose, by any chance, that heavenly joy which God has prepared for those who love Him.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

All Satan's Apples Have Worms. I do not deny that the Devil has some pretty apples; I just say that all of them are fakes and that after you bite into them, you will find they have worms. All Satan's apples have worms.

When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!

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

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

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