Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

• Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Eye, Kentucky, Columnists

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• To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Kentucky, Appreciate, Heritage

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• If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Witty, Crazy, Political

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Writing, Too Much, Good Business

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Birthday, Age, Emotion

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Sarcastic, Witty, Powerful

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• Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Jobs, Work, Men

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• If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Women, Likes, Like Her

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funeral, Eulogy, Defense

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Teacher, Appreciation, Laughter

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Witty, Women, Laughing

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• An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Cities, San Francisco, Friendly

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• You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Sarcastic, Opera, Operations

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Sports, Work, Paid

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• Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Golf, Men, Vices

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• Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

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• You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Hate, Loving Him, Colonels

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