29 Quotes by Irvin S. Cobb

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

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

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

Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

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.

Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.