Wooden Shoes Quotes

• Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.

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  Eugene Field

  Beautiful   Moon   Night  

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Round-heads and Wooden-shoes are standing jokes.

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  Joseph Addison

  Shoes   Standing   Jokes  

  Joseph Addison (1726). “Miscellaneous works in verse and prose [ed.] with some account of the author, by mr. Tickell”, p.174

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• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

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  Eugene Field

  Night   Light   Sea  

  "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)

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• History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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  Voltaire

  Shoes   History   Sound  

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• I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

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  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hate   Shoes   France  

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The bee. Essays. Unacknowledged essays. Prefaces, Introductions, etc”, p.245

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