maggot quotes

A maggot must be born i'the rotten cheese to like it.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Adam Bede, ch.32.

L'homme est bien insense  . Il ne s c° auroit forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a'   douzaines. Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to make a maggot, and he makes Gods by the dozen.

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  Essais, bk.2, ch.12 (translated by Charles Cotton).