Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: Sense, Writers)

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: Hope, Illness, Nothing)

"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: Humor, Tragedy)

"As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: Work, Hard work)

"An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: People, Memory)

"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms."
- Irvin S. Cobb
(Related: 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
(Related: May, Pen, Tongue, Will, Witty, Woman)