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It's humbling to think that all animals, including human beings, are parasites of the plant world.
Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.
Amphibians - the word comes from the Greek meaning 'double life.
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.
Born merely for the purpose of digestion.
Yes, Consul. The next time one of our esteemed members turns into a worm and eats another esteemed member, we will inform you immediately.
Jealousy is one of love's parasites.
Splendiferous. That's your word. It's yellow with six legs and it's crawling up your arm.
From his legs like an untethered weight. In their thousands the parasites
Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are the most highly socialized of insects, so their lives are the most intolerable.
Every parasite needs a host," Jay said.
"Every Queen needs an empire," McLoughlin said.
Who has more leisure than a worm?
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
Your trench. The lice were "chats," the food was
Lief. That's not nice, considering all your sister has done for you," admonished Perl.
"Oh right. How could I forget that she made me bait for a snake, left me on house arrest in Ixia, and smuggled me into the Keep in a coffin.
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
your a flea on a rats bum
What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina)
Astonishingly slimy and dangerous
A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey - a non-preying mantis if you like.
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
Live loath'd and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
Life is its own consumer
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil.
The book worm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes an the Roman nose, who had never been sought after or cherished; who had always been left alone, to read.
landed on my chest and stuck its proboscis
I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.
Pompous worm-faced snob-head camel turd.
I am malicious because I am miserable
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
F***ing triffids.
You are a gut maggot with no guts.
It's just my creepy science mind at work. I was thinking how bizarre it is that a parasite is growing in you and will eventually explode from your body through an extremely narrow opening, and yet you will both survive.
She's a parasite I can't seem to get rid of. Like a bad case of financial diarrhea.
SCHISMATRIX is a creeping sea-urchin of a book - spikey and odd. It isn't very elegant, and it lacks bilateral symmetry, but pieces of it break off inside people and stick with them for years.
He has a reptile dysfunction.
What kind of maggot grows in the corpse of a day?
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt -
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise
Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.
I have a black look I do not
like. It is a mask I try on.
I migrate toward it and its frog
sits on my lips and defecates.
Only a flea of hope.. 'But fleas ain't easy to rid' -Meronym
Tiny parasites inside you, big parasites outside you, people living from your work even though they stay on the other side of the world, making you do it by the force of laws and guns. Laws like mistletoe!
She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385)
Pick on our clients, will you, you parasitical, piratical, putrefied parcels of puking pus-filled perverts.
Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.
It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.
The Eater of Socks,' moaned the Senior Wrangler, with his eyes shut. 'How many tentacles would you expect it to have?' said the Lecturer in Recent Runes. 'I mean, roughly speaking?
Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
The Duke said: "Paul, I'm doing a hateful thing, but I must." He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing's sensor arms hung limply over the table, reminding Paul of some weird insect newly dead. The Duke's
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
I have a constant hungry bum. It's like my own venus fly trap
Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?"
"What?"
"Half-imaginary.
should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared
frugivorous also.
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.
only a silkworm.
...a leering, sneering obscene little harpy...
The worm does not his work more surely on the dead body, than does this slow creeping fire upon the living frame.
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.
[T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.
[Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae,
Fortuna non mutat genus.]
Only once did Lori glimpse such an entity, supine on a mattress in the corner of its boudoir. It was naked, corpulent and sexless, its sagging body a motley of dark, oily skin and larval eruptions that seeped phosphorescence, soaking its simple bed.
C.J. had spoken longingly of finding the African termite queen, the glistening white sac that was half a foot long and as thick as a bratwurst, bursting with eggs and creamy insect fat, the queen you ate alive and whole, and she was said to twitch as she went down your throat. (188)
Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
You are what what you eat eats.
My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human.
I eat like a vulture. Unfortunately the resemblance doesn't end there.
A friend in need is a pest.
Whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
Spiderlike, I spin mirrors,
Loyal to my image.
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!
These little black circular shapes were a result of him being a carrier of a parasite known as Toxoplasma gondii
For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.
Yet is there one more cursed than they all,
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery,
Through fear of losing his felicity.
I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.
A victim of the use of water as a beverage.
The boy caught an almost imperceptible movement, the insatiable greed of maggots crawling inside human flesh.
a fully flowered narcissist.
Conceited little mega-puppy.
Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer.
The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.
amanuensis. A rapt