It was the biggest fish I caught that got away.
More Quotes from Eugene Field:
If this life that we live be a dreaming(As pessimist people are thinking),
To induce pleasant dreams there is nothing, meseems,
Like this sweet prescription,
That baffles description--
This drinking,
and drinking,
and drinking.
Eugene Field
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace. Field was referring to Creston Clarke's performance of King Lear in Denver in 1880.
Eugene Field
Oh, for an hour in that dear place!
Eugene Field
Go now and wring thy hands, false king!
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
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