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Eugene Field Quotes

«But I, when I undress me Each night upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me, With apple pie and cheese»
«Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night / Sailed off in a wooden shoe - / Sailed on a river of crystal light, / Into a sea of dew.»
Author: Eugene Field | Keywords: crystal, dew, nod, shoe, wooden, wooden shoe
«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.»
«The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat»
Author: Eugene Field | Keywords: calico, calico cat, gingham
«I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath changed us so, For when I used to sing those songs, My Papa blankety blanked, And Mama took me on her knee And I, alas! was spanked»
«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»
Author: Eugene Field | About: Joy | Keywords: allot, allots, swift, wing
«Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.»
Author: Eugene Field
«He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.»
Author: Eugene Field
«She is continuing a tradition»
Author: Eugene Field
«I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get water. My mistake was in not asking them what year.»
Author: Eugene Field