Eugene Field quotes
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“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
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“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.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.
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“But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : 'Apple Pie and Cheese'
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“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
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“Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition
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“Let my temptation be a book.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition
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“Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”
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“Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field, “Jest 'Fore Christmas”
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“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.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.
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“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.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (1901). “A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay”
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“Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?”
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“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.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “Songs and Other Verse”, p.148, tredition
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“The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field, “Apple-Pie And Cheese”
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“I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field, “Our Biggest Fish”
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“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.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.
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“A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (1901). “The Complete Tribune Primer”
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“The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.142, tredition
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“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.”
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“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!”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.
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“He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”
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“When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.77, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.”
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“Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”
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“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”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”
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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 FieldSource : "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)
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“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.”
-- Eugene FieldSource : Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”
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