Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
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.
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?