Irvin S. Cobb

Journalist

13 Quotes

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

Pendongeng yang baik adalah orang dengan ingatan yang baik dan berharap orang lain tidak.

Usia setengah baya: adalah ketika Anda mulai menukar emosi dengan perilaku.

Seorang wanita mungkin memiliki lidah yang jenaka atau pena yang menyengat tetapi dia tidak akan pernah tertawa atas kekurangannya sendiri.

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

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

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

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

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

Pidato pemakaman adalah pembelaan yang terlambat untuk pembelaan yang disampaikan setelah semua bukti masuk.

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

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

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