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

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

- Eugene Field

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

The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!

- Eugene Field

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the oth…

- Eugene Field

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

- Eugene Field

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

- Eugene Field

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

Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and…

- Eugene Field