Irvin S. Cobb

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#get #hard #hard work #i #paid

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#begin #emotions #exchange #middle #middle age

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#good memory #haven #hopes #memory #other

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#been #belated #discontinued #epitaph #goods

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#his #hope #i #illness #just

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#belated #defense #delivered #eulogy #evidence

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#head #merely #pants #standing #torn

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#good #much #sense #too #too much