#worm

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. ↗

— Henry Miller

#believe #cease #day #gods #men

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

— Eugenio Montale

#assistance #cannot #corrosive #man #produce

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? ↗

— Max Muller

#chrysalis #dust #makes #sin #which

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#does #forgotten #gnawing #grateful #great

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#few #nothing #ripeness #says #spirit

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#cheese #early #early bird #get #gets

Where there is no water, there are no fish. Where there are no fish, there are no fishermen. And where there are no fishermen, there may or may not be worms, but there certainly are no men doing the “worm” dance in the open grassy field. I know, because I was the only one doing it, and I just stopped. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fish #fisherman #funny #worm #funny

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics. ↗

— Ama Ata Aidoo

#bored #created #even #god #immensely

The early bird catches the worm. ↗

— William Camden

#catches #early #early bird #worm

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#feel #grabbed #hook #i #i feel