I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it. - Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him. - Immanuel Kant
The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do. - Elizabeth Scott
CANONICALS, n. The motley worm by Jesters of the Court of Heaven. - Ambrose Bierce
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. - William Shakespeare
A wise bird would rather lose a worm than a feather. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Willie Nelson
They floated for a while, two flesher-shaped creatures and a giant worm in a cloud of spinning metal fragments, an absurd collection of imaginary debris, glinting by the light of the true stars. - Greg Egan
EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. - Ambrose Bierce
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. - Bible
We didn't install the [Code Red] patch on those DMZ systems because they were only used for development and testing. — Anonymous client, shortly after spending 48 continuous hours removing 2001's Code Red worm from internal corporate servers - Mark G. Graff
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. - Dorothy Parker
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. - Sholem Aleichem
Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. - Michel de Montaigne
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. - Swedish Proverb
You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm. - Larry Page
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed. - Robert Heinlein