Education Quote by Irvin S. Cobb

“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have…

— Irvin S. Cobb

Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down…

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

— Irvin S. Cobb

“By now the moon was well down. Over the tree tops they had seen her cruise across the heavens to strike on a reef…

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

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,…

— Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb