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.

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

  Eugene Field

  Night, Light, Sea

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

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

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hate, Shoes, France

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

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

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

  Voltaire

  Shoes, History, Sound

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