The early bird gets proverbs and quotes about worms.
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'Every worm has his weak spot', as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
A bookworm.
A person who is very fond of readingA man once struck with a firebrand runs away on seeing a glowworm.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Roger WatersSource: Pink Floyd lyrics: Hey You
As day breaks, the glowworms say: 'We've lit up the world!'
Before men existed there were already worms to eat them.
LucebertBookworm.
A person who is very fond of readingDo not lean on a worm-eaten staff.
Don't feed a silkworm that's sleeping.
Let sleeping dogs sleep.Even a worm will turn.
Every cider apple has a worm.
Every worm has its hole.
Glowworms are not lanterns.
God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it in the nest.
How much less man, who is but a maggot, the son of man, who is only a worm?
BibleSource: Job: 25: 6
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!
Emily BrontëSource: Wuthering Heights
If the timid sees a glowworm he shouts: 'Fire!'
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat; it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
This is how The Hobbit book begins.
It is foolish to show glowworms by candle light.
Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.
No apple tree is immune from worms.
Quiet worms will bore a hole in the wall.
Salt will never be worm-eaten.
Silent worms dig holes in the walls.
Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood.
The couch beneath you is the maggot, your covering, the worm.
BibleSource: Isaiah 14:11
The early bird catches the early worm.
The early bird catches the worm.
If you start the work early, you have a higher chance of success.The early bird gets the worm.
The most beautiful fig may contain a worm.