As quoted by Violet Bonham-Carter in Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965), according to The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), Fred R. Shapiro, Yale University Press, p. 155 ISBN 0300107986
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
Song The Glow-Worm
“I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!”
A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)
“He knows that I am speaking the truth, for no worm ever gnawed old wood.”
Ei sa che 'l vero parlo:
ché legno vecchio mai non róse tarlo.
Canzone 360, st. 5
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
The testament of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov, translated by (Brooklyn: Kehot Publication Society, 1998), ch. 12.
“Transferring the receptor from a social worm to a solitary worm makes the solitary worm social.”
In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: Cori Bargmann... has studied two variants of C. elegans... The only difference between the two is one amino acid in an otherwise shared receptor protein. Transferring the receptor from a social worm to a solitary worm makes the solitary worm social.
Wurm, der ich bin, von Leidenschaften zerfressen, der Selbstsucht zum Köder hingeworfen, soll ich dennoch den Menschen lieben. Wenn ich dies kann, und sofern ich dies kann, kann ich auch Gott lieben.
Source: The Concept of Religion in the System of Philosophy (1915), p. 82 http://books.google.com/books?id=rZ9RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA82
“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”
Act IV, scene 4. Compare Distance.
The White Devil (1612)
