Quotes by Eugene Field

“But I, when I undress meEach night, upon my kneesWill ask the Lord to bless meWith apple-pie and cheese.”

“A problem's worst nightmare is a solution. Be the solution!”

“Be the solution!”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum: it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. Within the compass of five generations we find the Puritan first an uncompromising believer in demonolog...”

“I feel a sort of yearnin' 'nd a chokin' in my throatWhen I think of Red Hoss Mountain 'nd of Casey's tabble dote!”

“He could whip his weight in wildcats.”

“The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!”

“It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.”

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