Irvin S Cobb Famous Quotes



"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."


Irvin S Cobb Quotations






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"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away."
Abraham Lincoln

The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 120) while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God What marvelous grace and glory."
William Hallman

"Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken."
Dr Karl Menninger

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
Lao Tzu

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
Charlotte Bronte

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance"
Frank Moore Colby

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Marquis de Vauvenargues

"What's up, Doc"
Tex Avery

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
Paul Aubuchon