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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