Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

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

If writers were good businessmen, they`d have too much sense to be writers.

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven`t.

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

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

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

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

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

I`ve just learned about his illness. Let`s hope it`s nothing trivial.