Worm Quotes

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Good
  • Cold
  • Summer

• Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Truth
  • Illusions
  • Worm

• The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Today
  • Bird
  • Catches

• 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.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Bird
  • Good Idea
  • Worm

• There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Bodies
  • Butterfly
  • Complete

• Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

  

  Francis Beaumont
  • Fairest
  • Flock
  • Bloodhounds

• Who has more leisure than a worm?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Leisure
  • Worm

• Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Work
  • Assistance
  • Worm