If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
"Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb" was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who relocated to New York during 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.
Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted for two feature films during the 1930s directed by John Ford.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Irvin S. Cobb on Wikipedia.Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
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