Gilded tombs do worms infold. [ Shakespeare ]

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. [ Shakespeare ]

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, with joy,
To see how plump my bags are and my barns. [ Ben Jonson ]

Down to the dust! and as thou rottest away,
Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. [ Byron ]

Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where,
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright;
But looked too near, have neither heat nor light. [ Webster ]

One destined period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave.
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. [ Lansdowne ]

Water breeds frogs in the belly; but wine kills worms. [ Proverb ]

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [ William Shakespeare ]

As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. [ Bacon ]

Great libraries of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats - that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners! [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]