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"The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it." »Robin Green
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"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm." »Winston Churchill
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"God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest." »Swedish Proverb
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"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." »Unknown
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"That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed." »Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love
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"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens." »Michel de Montaigne
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"We never regret having eaten too little." »Thomas Jefferson
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"A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm." »Bill Vaughan
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"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." »Jewish Proverb
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"He hath eaten me out of house and home." »William Shakespeare
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"You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart." »Horace
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"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." »Aesop
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down
Only when the last river has been poisoned
Only when the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." »Cree Indian Prophecy
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"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." »Cree Indian Prophecy
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." »Doug Larson
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"I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels." »Anthony Trollope
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"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace." »Edward Lear
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"A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American." »16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
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"Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love." »William Shakespeare
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"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"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" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."" »Mike Kellen
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