A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
About Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobbwas an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
American writer (1876-1944)
If writers were good businessmen, they’d have too much sense to be writers.
American writer (1876-1944)
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
American writer (1876-1944)
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
American writer (1876-1944)
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
American writer (1876-1944)
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
American writer (1876-1944)
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven’t.
American writer (1876-1944)
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
American writer (1876-1944)
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
American writer (1876-1944)