To draw the worm out of the root. [ Proverb ]
There is no God dare wrong a worm. [ Emerson ]
The canker-worm of every gentle breast. [ Spenser ]
It is the early bird that catches the worm. [ Proverb ]
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II. Sc. 4 ]
Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]
I took him for a worm, but he proved a serpent. [ Proverb ]
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone. [ Byron ]
Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor. [ Saadi ]
A great man will not trample upon, a worm, nor sneak to an emperor. [ Proverb ]
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. [ Kant ]
The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, the deep, damp vault, the darkness and tbe worm. [ Young ]
True goodness is like the glow-worm; it shines most when no eyes, except those of heaven are upon it. [ Anonymous ]
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it. [ J. C. Hare ]
Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul. [ Tupper ]
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty. [ Willis ]
When thou forgivest, - the man who has pierced thy heart stands to thee in the relation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the mussel which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. [ Richter ]
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, - all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. [ Auerbach ]
What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]