Quotes with grub-worm

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  • Bill Engvall (mimicking a fish's gills wither side of his neck) Hey... (cracks) You paid to see it... hey... Ever eaten a worm? (2nd fish) What? When did you eat a worm? Oh I was on the riverbank... catching my breath... - thank you, those of you who got that...
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    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Eugenio Montale Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
    Eugenio Montale
    Italian poet (1896 - 1981)
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  • William E. Vaughan 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.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • P. D. James God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Grub first, then ethics.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bill Vaughan In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Jonathan Swift O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Georges Bataille Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Winston Churchill We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Herb Shriner All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
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  • Ambrose Bierce Edible. 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
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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