Quotes from Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes

Monday's child is fair of face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child has to work for its living,But a child that's born on the Sabbath dayIs fair and wise and good and gay.

"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Fe fi fo fum!I smell the blood of an Englishman;Be he alive or be he dead,I'll grind his bones to make my bread.

Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea,Silver buckles on his knee;He'll come back and marry me,Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.

Baa, baa, black sheep,Have you any wool?Yes, sir, yes, sir,Three bags full:One for my master,And one for my dame,And one for the little boyWho lives down the lane.

A dillar, a dollar,A ten o'clock scholar,What makes you come so soon?You used to come at ten o'clock,And now you come at noon.

"Who saw him die?""I," said the fly,"With my little eye,I saw him die."

Jack, be nimble,Jack, be quick,Jack, jump over the candlestick.

The north wind doth blow,And we shall have snow,And what will poor robin do then,Poor thing? He'll sit in a barn,To keep himself warm,And hide his head under his wing,Poor thing!

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,Stole a pig, and away he run;The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,And Tom went howling down the street.

"Nobody asked you, sir," she said.

The Queen of HeartsShe made some tarts,All on a summer's day;The Knave of HeartsHe stole the tarts,And took them clean away.

Three blind mice, see how they run!They all ran after the farmer's wife,She cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a sight in your life,As three blind mice?

Cock a doodle doo!My dame has lost her shoe;My master's lost his fiddle stick,And knows not what to do.

High diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such craft And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king's horsesAnd all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

What are little boys made of?Snips and snails, and puppy dogs' tails;That's what little boys are made of.

One flew east, one flew west,One flew over the cuckoo's nest.

Doctor Foster went to GloucesterIn a shower of rain;He stepped in a puddle, up to his middle,And never went there again.

Here comes a candle to light you to bed,Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.

Goosey goosey gander,Whither shall I wander?Upstairs and downstairs,And in my lady's chamber;There I met an old man who wouldn't say his prayers;I took him by the left legAnd threw him down the stairs.

Simple Simon met a piemanGoing to the fair:Says Simple Simon to the pieman,"Let me taste your ware."

Bye baby bunting,Daddy's gone a-hunting.Gone to get a rabbit skinTo wrap the baby bunting in.