Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobbwas an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth23 June 1876
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking skeletons
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.
goods
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
good people
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
birthday age emotion
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
humor tragedy pants
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
sarcastic opera operations
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
sports hard-work paid
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
lines belated humour
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
jobs work men
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
witty women laughing
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
women likes like-her
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
hate loving-him colonels
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.
golf men penance
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.
funeral eulogy defense
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.