Too worm and early

• the early bird gets the worm (saying)
• Gaping Gil as the bird that got the worm, i.e., he caught him with his member (worm) out.
• “I have met with you, bird, too late:” widely reported account of Joyce’s first meeting with Yeats, at which Joyce is supposed to have said, “We have met too late. You are too old for me to have any influence on you.” In his 1941 essay "James Joyce," Frank Budgen writes, "Joyce affirmed that the story was untrue and went on to instance the many occasions on which he had shown his respect and admiration for Ireland's greatest poet." Yeats also denied the story. However, in "Joyce and Yeats" (The Kenyon Review, 12, 4 (Autumn,1950, 618-38), Richard Ellmann includes Yeats' previously unpublished version, which confirms the story.
• Oscar Wilde (about meeting Douglas, De Profundis: 'but I met you either too late or too soon'
• warm and early (premature ejaculation)
• worm dragon