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Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'! -- Irvin S. Cobb
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. -- Irvin S. Cobb
You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Good motives butter no parsnips, and hell is paved with buttered parsnips. -- Irvin S. Cobb
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. -- Irvin S. Cobb
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. -- Irvin S. Cobb
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. -- Irvin S. Cobb
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue. -- Irvin S. Cobb
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms. -- Irvin S. Cobb
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. -- Irvin S. Cobb
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. -- Irvin S. Cobb
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. -- Irvin S. Cobb
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. -- Irvin S. Cobb
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. -- Irvin S. Cobb
You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation. -- Irvin S. Cobb
If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed -- Irvin S. Cobb