Irvin S. Cobb quotes
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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.”
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“If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.”
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“A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.”
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“Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.”
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“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'!”
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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.”
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“If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.”
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“If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed”
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“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
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“You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.”
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“I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.”
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“Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.”
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“Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.”
-- Irvin S. Cobb
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