Irvin S. Cobb Quotes

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It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo, it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp. 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.

Irvin S. Cobb

Maine has as much geology as some states that are twice her size, which is highly creditable to her, of course.

Irvin S. Cobb

I think that perhaps it is impossible to be a wit without also being essentially, deeply, and tragically, a melancholy person.

Irvin S. Cobb

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

Irvin S. Cobb

Maine was the first state to vote dry and, if I am one to say, will be among the last to become so.

Irvin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy, I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed.

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb

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Born: June 23, 1876

Died: March 11, 1944 (aged 67)

Bio: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was 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.

Known for:

Cobb's anatomy (1912)
Speaking of operations-- (1915)
Old Judge Priest (1913)
Roughing it de luxe (1913)
Fishhead

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