Succinct: Short humorous sayings and intelligent witty one liners were Cobb’s forte.

4 Quotes From Irvin S. Cobb
1876-1944

• As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
  
  
• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
  
  
• I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
  
  
• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

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