Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

Memory, Person, Other, Good Memory

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

Sense, Too, Were, Businessmen

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

Evidence, Defense, Belated, Plea

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

- Irvin S. Cobb

Woman, Individual, May, Laugh

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

Trivial, His, Learned, Illness

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

Line, Been, Belated, Epitaph

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

- Irvin S. Cobb

Emotions, Middle, Symptoms, Middle Age

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

- Irvin S. Cobb

Work, Get, Which, Paid

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

- Irvin S. Cobb

Humor, Head, Standing, Merely

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