Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry."
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Worms
65 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Martin Luther
Theologian
"My conscience is captive to the Word of God"
Norman Ralph Augustine
Business Executive
"The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Worms are the intestines of the earth."
Wallace Stevens
Poet
"The poet makes silk dresses out of worms."
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"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."
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"The worm is not to be trusted."
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"Worm theology is too high for me."
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"For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark."
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"Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms."
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"Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm."
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"Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
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"The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood."
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"In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias."
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"My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks."
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"The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm."
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
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"They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls."
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"we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues."
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"Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth."
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"We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm"
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"There is no God dare wrong a worm."
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"Who has more leisure than a worm?"
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"He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile."
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"It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us."
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