Creative Quotations from Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Irvin S. Cobb
(1876-1944) born on Jun 23

US "journalist, author". "He was a noted humor columnist and after-dinner speaker; wrote "Speaking Operations," 1915 and "Old Judge Priest," 1916."

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

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

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

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

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

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
R:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
N:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K:	"In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."