Words matter. These are the best Worm Quotes from famous people such as William Camden, James Acaster, Eugenio Montale, Immanuel Kant, Hayden Fry, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The early bird catches the worm.
Certain celebs manage to worm their way out of the spotlight, and I won’t stand for that.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
There is a page in ‘Diary of a Worm’ in which the worm tells his sister that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end. Any girl that grew up with brothers can relate to the merciless teasing.
There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
The way to make a worm live longer is probably quite different from making a human live longer.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
When results are shared freely amongst the biological community, as has been done for the worm and the Human Genome Projects, specialist scientists can move much more rapidly towards their goals.
I just like to catch fish, I don’t care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can’t do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
I have a worm’s eye view and a bird’s eye view simultaneously and it’s immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
It’s hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
I don’t see things from a worm’s perspective but a bird’s perspective. I smile at problems.
In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.
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.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm… gets eaten.
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher’s pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.
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.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
‘The Lair of the White Worm’ is quite a strange film. It’s difficult to be good when you’re saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t believe that.
It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.
Edible, adj.: 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.
Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you – one worm or Trojan is all it takes.
I always felt a little worm inside me: ‘Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.’
I thought I’d love to be a gardener because I grew up with a vegetable garden and I love being close to the Earth and growing things. At my home in L.A., I have a great garden and I grow all kinds of things. I even have a worm farm! The worms help create organic compost out of kitchen scraps.
