slimy quotes

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yes, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.2.

And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.4.