Irvin S. Cobb Quotes
- 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.
- You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
- As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
- If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed
- If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
- An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
- Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
- A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
- A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
- To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
- Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the…
- If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
- 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.