Famous quotes containing the words thorny, headed and/or worm:
“...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor—they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)
“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed “Wisdom.” And then I know exactly what is going to follow: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.””
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)