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Letter "W" » worm
«In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm»
«If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.»
«Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, / The shooting-stars attend thee; / And the elves also,/ Whose little eyes glow, / Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.»
Author: Robert Herrick
| Keywords:
attend, befriend, befriended, befriending, befriends, ELF, elves, glow, Glow worm, lend, shooting, shooting star, Shooting Stars, sparks, worm
«I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
crawls, crush, enter upon, forewarn, Forewarned, inadvertent, list, List of, my list, reptile, reptiles, set aside, tread, worm
«It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.»
«I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Luck
| Keywords:
bad luck, early bird, good luck, worm
«I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
documentary, eagle, film, flying, fly fishing, lake, Lake of, pulls, swoop, swooped, swoops, the fish, worm
«O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.»
«Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen»
«O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bed of roses, crimson, howling, The Howling, worm
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