Eugene Field Quotes

#1. I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.

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#2. All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

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#3. No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

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#4. Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.

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#5. The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

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#6. Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck
It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science
same as any other game.

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#7. Let my temptation be a book.

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#8. And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea.

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#9. He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

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#10. There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine,
A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

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#11. Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

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#12. I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

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#13. How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

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#14. A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

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#15. What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

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#16. Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.

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#17. The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

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#18. He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

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#19. Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

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#20. 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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#21. Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

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#22. Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

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#23. When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

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#24. Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

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#25. Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

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#26. But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

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#27. But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

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