quotes about Worms
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.
-- Ama Ata AidooSource : Ama Ata Aidoo (2015). “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”, p.96, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
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Jealousy, the old worm that bites.
-- Aphra BehnSource : Aphra Behn, Jane Spencer (1998). “The Rover: The Feigned Courtesans ; The Lucky Chance ; The Emperor of the Moon”, p.233, Oxford University Press, USA
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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
-- Christiaan BarnardSource : "Heart transplant pioneer dies". www.cnn.com. September 2, 2001.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
-- Emily Dickinson -
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
-- Eugenio MontaleSource : Eugenio Montale (1976). “Poet in our time”, Calder Publications
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It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.
-- Hannah Hurnard -
Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.
-- Heinrich Heine -
My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish
-- Howard MoskowitzSource : "The Ketchup Conundrum" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. September 6, 2004.
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Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.
-- Howard Stern -
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Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.
-- Junichiro TanizakiSource : Junichiro Tanizaki (2011). “Some Prefer Nettles”, p.4, Tuttle Publishing
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
-- Karl AbrahamSource : Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”
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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.
-- Larry Page -
A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
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There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
-- Lawrence FerlinghettiSource : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1960). “Her”, p.24, New Directions Publishing
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I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
I'm not afraid of total failure. In the end, we're all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?
-- Marisha Pessl -
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
-- Norman Ralph Augustine -
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Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.
-- Patty Griffin -
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
-- PZ MyersSource : "Theology is a deceitful strategy" by PZ Myers, freethoughtblogs.com. July 1, 2008.
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The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
-- Sholom Aleichem -
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
-- Solomon NorthupSource : Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2014). “Twelve Years A Slave: illustrated Original Edition With Bonus of Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.71, Ageless Reads
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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
-- Thomas HarrisSource : Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”
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The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.
-- Darren Hardy -
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Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant
-- Michael Basman -
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 -
A jail is just like a nutshell with a worm in it, the worm will always get out.
-- John Dillinger