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“What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.”

Life Art Pain Joy Lost Tears Flower Labor Empty Eternity Breaths Court Ease Streams Shade Fades Tides Worms Fleeting Undone Puff Vapor Short Lived

Author:Alexander Brome

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

Life Fool News Worms Errands

Book:Lost Haven

Source: Lost Haven

“Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does not consider you as such. ... he hath made all men free and equal. Then why should one worm say to another, 'Keep you down there, while I sit up yonder; for I am better than thou?”

Thinking Men Should Doe Made God Freedom Race Lord Equal Racism Skins Equality African American Inferiors Considering Black Women Worms Equal Rights Hue Anti Racist

Author:Maria W. Stewart

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

Bird Spite Mechanism Worms Ecstatic

Book:Her

Source: Her

“The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.”

Feels Years Children Body Violence Creation Objects Creatures Increase Fellows Bullying Agony Torment Worms Pins Compunction

Author:Laetitia Pilkington

“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”

Men Giving Should May Home Beautiful Easy Technology Fit Offers Stones Wings Spots Dust Prisoner Transition Toil Worms Bricks Pilgrimage Timber

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Earth Worms Nobility Descendants

Author:PZ Myers

“As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.”

Kind Problem Moving Difficult Quality Company Security Arise All Kinds Manage Worms Computing Server

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.”

Creatures Fats Diets Worms Emperor Maggots Hamlet Theme Hamlet Revenge

Book:Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.”

Sometimes Bird Frozen Worms Scholes Early Bird

Author:Myron Scholes

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

Normal Worms Normal Life Mutation Life Span

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“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.”

Ifs Way Humans Use Process Study Higher Aging Speed Controlled Organisms Worms Aging Process

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.”

Ifs Long Normal Worms Mutants

Author:Cynthia Kenyon

“The early worm deserves the bird.”

Moral Bird Deserve Manners Worms

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.”

Character Forget Interesting Forgiving Spokes Worms Lambs Interesting Characters

Author:Charles Dickens

“The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“That's human nature - we want to completely rewrite history so it can be comfortable. Without getting too profound, I'm pretty sure that's where the invention of the afterlife comes from. "We don't really become worm food. We go to a magical place with bunnies and rainbows."”

Want Humans Human Nature Comfortable Profound Invention Afterlife Rainbow Worms Bunnies Magical Places

Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

“To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.”

“In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.”

Kind Made Used Loss Effort Greater Findings Consequence England Saving Useless Grass Ecology Worms Corn New England Mischievous Blackbirds

Book:A Benjamin Franklin Reader

Source: A Benjamin Franklin Reader

“The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of the sheep is what wins out. The first Commandment is--never let them get anything on you-- The second: Graft--get privileges others haven't got--worm yourself into confidence The Third--seem neat and prosperous--as if you had money in the bank”

Source: Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941

“we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues.”

Knows Ends Garden Seeds Worms Tissues

Book:Collected Poems, 1919-1976

Source: Collected Poems, 1919-1976

“Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.”

Heart Long Soul Evil Sin My Heart Bones Tongue Worms Adultery Theft Stretching Dine

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Dies Ears Sigh Worms Slides Corpses Daisies

Book:The death notebooks

Source: The death notebooks

“A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?”

Ifs World Time Summer Clock Timeless Worms Insects Calendars Slugs

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”

Age Religion Found Strange Return Instance Worms Mixtures Mistress Corpses Tombs Jerusalem Pilgrimage Gallantry

Author:Horace Walpole

“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.”

Believe Children I Can Torture Worms Blasphemy Canterbury

Author:David Attenborough

“Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.”

Deals Party Prove Red Concerned Feds Worms Frogs Biologist Flannels

Author:Will Cuppy

“I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea. The dangers of it only make present to us the peril inherent in all existence, which the stupid, ignorant, un-travelled land-worm never discovers; and the art of it, so mathematical, so exact, so rewarding to intelligence, appeals to courage and clears the mind of superstition, while filling it with humility and true religion.”

“I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels.”

Ifs Thinking Should Fields Ready Fit Angel Grass Thrown Atoms Afterlife Burned Should I Worms Pits Archangel

Book:The Letters of Anthony Trollope

Source: The Letters of Anthony Trollope

“And Death fell with me, like a deepening moan. And He, picking a manner of worm, which half had hid Its bruises in the earth, but crawled no further, Showed me its feet, the feet of many men, And the fresh-severed head of it, my head.”

Men Earth Death Half Feet Worms Bruises

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“I will catch Christ with a greased worm, And when the Prince of Darkness stalks My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . . On water the Man-Fisher walks.”

Men Term Christ Water Walks Darkness Fishing Worms Stalking

Book:The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction

Source: The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction

“What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.”

Looks Causes Break Range Leap Trading Worms Break Out Twitching

Author:Larry R. Williams

“It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.”

Apples Delicious Worms

Author:Jay Carney

“Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.”

Late Bird Tired Worms Early Bird

Book:How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities

Source: How Did I Get to Be 40 & Other Atrocities

“Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.”

Way Truth Errors Worms Gateways Antithesis

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.”

Way Water Fire Air Elements Mass Stones Weight Woods Proportion Bitterness Decay Burned Composition Worms Floats Dense Sap Ignite Moisture

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.”

Done Fear Alive Food Decades Worms

Author:Gianfranco Zola

“Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.”

Ideas Happens Courses Bird Good Ideas Worms Early Bird

Author:Ed Bliss

“In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.”

Firsts Next Century Bird Grass Artificial Plastic Worms

Author:Bill Vaughan

“The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject to it; for it dulleth the spirits, and destroyeth the body as ivy doth the old tree, or as the worm that engendereth in the kernal of the nut.”

Men Body Spirit Tree Subjects Delight Nuts Worms Drunkenness Ivy Old Trees

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works

“Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.”

People Littles Fall Change Tree Position Balls Bitter Dust Dry Worms Ripe

Book:Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“For every worm beneath the moon Draws different threads, and late and soon Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.”

Different Moon Late Draws Thread Worms Cocoons Toiling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard.”

Thinking President Lines Picks Disappear Stores Fishing Worms President Bush Bass Rubber National Guard

Author:Jay Leno

“worms are the words but joy's the voice”

Feelings Joy Language Voice Worms

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“I don't say that bodies like flint, which are commonly called inanimate, have perceptions and appetition; rather they have something of that sort in them, as worms are in cheese.”

Body Perception Cheese Worms

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

“Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.”

Language Religious Authority Obvious Suits Arrogance Prophet Dry Awe Scholar Killers Aggression Businessman Norm Worms Accustomed Beard Dreary Pluck Frenzy Colorless

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.”

Want Two Morning Creatures Dignity Teeth Insane Miserable Useless Sickness Temper Worms Belly One Love Rotten Crushed Battered Bad Temper Morning Sickness

Author:Sophia Tolstaya

“You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.”

“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.”

Knows Life Littles Stills Bigs Kids Faces Sex Walks Hair Birth Bunch Dust Mess Live Life Dirty Glorious Pie Mud Worms Little Kid Ponds Cleaners Slapping Dust To Dust Mud Pies

Author:Andrew Schneider

“The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.”

Thinking Facts Dies Meat Worms

Author:Robin Green

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