57 Quotes by Eugene Field

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.

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

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

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.

He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

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

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.

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

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.