Cobb Quotes
A few of Cobb's best lines....
Miss West Kentucky Carolyn Carter sitting
with winners' cup and Irvin S Cobb cutout - July 1947.
"A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't" |
| "A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in" |
"A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings" |
"An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued" |
"As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid" |
"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn" |
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial" |
"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers" |
"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms" |
"You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation” |
| “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” |
"Hell may have a worse climate but undoubtedly the company is sprightlier" |
"When a man dies with his sins let the sins die with the man" |
[Cobb on the making of mint juleps while teasing his friend H.L. Mencken] "Any guy who'd put rye in a mint julep and crush the leaves would put scorpions in a baby's bed." |