It went to pieces all at once—
All at once and nothing first,
Just as bubbles do when they burst.


The Deacon's Masterpiece; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

It went to pieces all at once— All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.

It went to pieces all at once— All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.

It went to pieces all at once— All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.

It went to pieces all at once— All at once and nothing first, Just as bubbles do when they burst.