Irvin S. Cobb

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

“The trouble with a great many people is that they are not worth the salt they eat.”

“A dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

“If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

“Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer.”

“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.”

“An editor is a person who knows precisely what he wants - but isn't quite sure.”

“Humor is the gentle art of making folks easy in their minds about their own comical and lamentable failings.”

“There's a lot of things that are said about me, some of them are true.”

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

“No gentleman ever weighs more than 200 pounds.”

“As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.”