Eugene Field Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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