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Letter "W" » worms
«Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.»
Author: David Gerrold
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
can of worms, die hard, dirt, grateful, In Your Face, throw, worm-eaten, worms
«My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth - that most of us go to Hell and burn eternally - but I didn't want to upset him.»
«Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.»
Author: Julian Critchley
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
can of worms, contradictions, free of, label, Marxism, Mrs, on the other hand, riddled, thatcher, Thatcherism, The Can, worms
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, banal, cling, cling to, corpse, corrupt, devote, enjoyments, gnawing, gnaws, host, passionate, petty, worms, wretchedly
«Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.»
Author: Horace Mann
| Keywords:
apple, apple orchard, canker, cankers, corrupt, efforts, exclude, force of law, on paper, orchard, orchards, public property, sign in, The Force, worms
«Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.»
«Offer your talents at the feet of God; let every act be a flower, free from creeping worms of envy and egoism and full of the fragrance of love and sacrifice.»
Author: Atharva Veda
| Keywords:
worms
«No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.»
«No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
belie, belied, corners, Kings and Queens, King and Queen, maids, nay, Nile, posting, Queens, rides, Secrets of, sharper, sharp tongue, slander, The Sword, worms
«Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
can of worms, died, eaten, from time to time, have died, not for, wormed, worms
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