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.
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
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
He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.
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
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
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
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
The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away. - Eugene Field
The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese! - Eugene Field
The best of all physiciansIs 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 oth… - 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…
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 for… - Eugene Field
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 for…
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep. - Eugene Field
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
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