Quotes of Eugene Field - somelinesforyou

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

- Eugene Field

“ All good and true booklovers 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

“ All good and true booklovers 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

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

- Eugene Field

“ 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

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

- Eugene Field

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

- Eugene Field

“ 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

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

- Eugene Field

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

- Eugene Field

“ 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

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

- Eugene Field

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

- Eugene Field

“ Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. ”

- Eugene Field

“ Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill! ”

- Eugene Field

“ 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

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

- Eugene Field

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Eugene Field

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

- Eugene Field

“ 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

“ 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

“ Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. ”

- Eugene Field

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Eugene Field

“ Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill! ”

- Eugene Field
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