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I doubt whether there are many other animals that have played so important a part in the history of the world. Charles Darwin
Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. William Shakespeare, II Henry IV IV iii 245, King Henry to Prince Harry
A certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. William Shakespeare, Hamlet IV ii 21
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. ibid. IV ii 29
Nomadic yak-herders tell tales about a creature they call the Mongolian Death Worm ... Scores of recent reports have made headlines in Mongolia. Destination Truth s2e2, Skyfy 2008
According to reports coming out of Iceland there’s a worm there big enough to catch a whale ... The worm monster inhabits the waters of a remote glacial lake in eastern Iceland. Destination Truth s2e8, Skyfy 2008
The other geologists believe they have witnessed an attack by ... the Mongolian death worm. Russia’s Mystery Files I, National Geographic 2014
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t believe that. David Attenborough
Worms: A single hectare may be home to eight million of them. They spend nearly all their time below ground. David Attenborough, Life in the Undergrowth I, BBC 2005
Australia: how long is a giant earthworm? ... a couple of metres almost. ibid.
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. Christiaan Barnard
What’s surprising is that it only took the worms [new species formed in arsenic soil] a hundred and seventy years to change so much. Dr Alice Roberts, Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? BBC 2011
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71
Kelly: I swallowed a tapeworm last night. It’s going to grow up to three feet inside of me and then it eats all my food so that I don’t get fat. And then after three months I take some medicine and then I pass it. Creed sold it to me. It’s from Mexico.
[cuts to Creed interview] Creed: That wasn’t a tapeworm. The Office US s5e1: Weightloss I, NBC 2008
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. Samuel Beckett
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi 1623
I didn’t exist at Creation.
I didn’t exist at the Flood,
And I won’t be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud –
Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I’m a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms. James Fenton, God, A Poem, 1983
A worm? See how fast that thing was – it’s more like a fucking cobra. Oh my fuck, boys, I have a goddamned pepperoni cobra living in my ’testines. Trailer Park Boys: The Animated Series II: The Pepperoni Cobra, Ricky
Ricky, you know you can’t keep a tapeworm as a pet, right? ibid.
Dr Hoover has found some of the rarest animals on Earth: ice worms only exist in a handful of locations in north America. But how can animals live and thrive in frozen blocks of ice? Ancient Aliens s14e9: The Alien Infection, History 2019
Deep beneath the city a monster awakens: ‘This red blob: then it starts writhing, it starts pulsating’ … ‘There’s thousands of miles of sewers beneath our cities’ … It’s a mass of worms. Strange Evidence s1e1, History 2024