Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
To snatch the worm from the trap.
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow endless drizzle.
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.
Corporations are "worms in the body politic"
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.
The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.
The situation in this country is like a dog with worms. You bring the dog to the vet to be dewormed, but the vet is Dr. Obama, and he says you can't get the dog dewormed because the worms have a vote. And that's the problem, folks: the worms have a vote.
They don't see that whole pattern. Wormdeath. Wormdeath. I would catch on.
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm. . . gets eaten.
Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.
Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.