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Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

«As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | About: Sports
«Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | About: Humor | Keywords: torn
«A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | Keywords: belated, delivered, eulogies, eulogy, funeral, plea
«If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | About: Writers
«You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb
«I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | Keywords: trivial
«A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb
«A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb
«Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb
«A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb | Keywords: crack, glass eye, jolt, jolted, suspender, suspenders
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