Tom quotes

Now why did you name your baby 'John'? EveryTom, Dick and Harry is named 'John'.

- Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz Goldwyn
Attributed. Quoted in Fred Metcalf (ed)  The Penguin Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1986).

Once upona time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name wasTom.

- Charles Kingsley
  The Water Babies, ch.1.

SoTomwent homewith Ellie†and heisnowa great man of science†and knows everything about everything, except whya hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things which no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues. And all this fromwhat helearnt whenhewas awater-baby, underneaththesea. 'And of course,Tom married Ellie?'My dear child, what a silly notion! Don't you know that no one ever marries in a fairy tale, under the rank of a prince or a princess?

- Charles Kingsley
  The Water Babies, ch.8.