Eugene Field Quotes

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

  Eugene Field

  Book, Appreciated, Book Lover

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Eugene Field

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.

  Eugene Field

  Book, Air, Perfume

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.164, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.

  Eugene Field

  Book, Temptation

  Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition

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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 Field

  Cheer, Book, Years

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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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 Field

  Ideas, Birth, Pendulums

  "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.

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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 Field

  Wings, Joy, Heaven

  Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”

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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 Field

  Food, Blessed, Night

  'Apple Pie and Cheese'

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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 Field

  Night, Light, Sea

  "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" l. 1 (1889)

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• The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

  Eugene Field

  Apples, Pie, Apple Pie

  Eugene Field, “Apple-Pie And Cheese”

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

  Eugene Field

  Fishing, Caught, Fishes

  Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.142, tredition

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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 Field

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Eugene Field, “Our Biggest Fish”

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

  Eugene Field

  Jail, Congress, Statesmen

  Eugene Field (1967). “The complete Tribune primer”

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

  Eugene Field

  Sarcastic, Baby, Mean

  Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”

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

  Eugene Field

  Girl, Baby, Pairs

  Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”

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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 Field

  Thinking, Years, Games

  Eugene Field (2012). “Songs and Other Verse”, p.148, tredition

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• Let my temptation be a book.

  Eugene Field

  Inspirational, Book, Temptation

  Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.47, tredition

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

  Eugene Field

  Mother, Father, Names

  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 Field

  Fall, Drinking, Boys

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Eugene Field

  Men, Poetry, Sausage

  Eugene Field (1901). “The Complete Tribune Primer”

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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 Field

  Men, Smell, Smoking

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune 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 Field

  Wine, Bird, Hot

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.77, 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 Field

  Christmas, Girl, Boys

  Eugene Field (1901). “A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay”

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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.

  Eugene Field

  Beautiful, Moon, Night

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. IV: Poems of Childhood”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Eugene Field

  Village, Letters, Maidens

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