Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Work, Hard, Understand

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
Irvin S. Cobb

Age, Emotions, Begin

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb

Good, Person, Memory

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb

Line, Goods, Epitaph

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb

Hope, Nothing, Learned

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Irvin S. Cobb

After, Evidence, Defense

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb

Woman, Laugh, May

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

Humor, Head, Tragedy

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb

Good, Sense, Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 23, 1876

Died: March 11, 1944

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