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Top 20 Eugene Field Quotes (2025 Update)

Eugene Field Quote: “I’d like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I’d go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I’d search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.”

1. “I’d like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I’d go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I’d search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.”

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.”

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

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”

3. “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.”

4. “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

Eugene Field Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Eugene Field Quote: “I never lost a little fish – Yes, I’m free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.”

6. “I never lost a little fish – Yes, I’m free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.”

— Eugene Field

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

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

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.”

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

— Eugene Field

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Eugene Field Quote: “Let my temptation be a book.”

9. “Let my temptation be a book.”

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “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.”

10. “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

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

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

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Eugene Field Quote: “Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.”

13. “Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.”

— Eugene Field

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

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

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!”

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

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “He is so mean, he won’t let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.”

16. “He is so mean, he won’t let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.”

— Eugene Field

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

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

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!”

19. “But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!”

— Eugene Field

Eugene Field Quote: “Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.”

20. “Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.”

— Eugene Field

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