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Irvin S. Cobb
American
Journalist
About the author
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Defense
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Writers
#Sense
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Hope
#Nothing
#Illness
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Tragedy
#Humor
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Work
#Hard work
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#People
#Memory
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Emotions
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Irvin S. Cobb,
American
Journalist
#Will
#May
#Woman
#Pen
#Tongue
#Witty