#in

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#head #merely #pants #standing #torn

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it. ↗

— Lee J. Cobb

#getting #i #out #penitentiary #way

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#better #fittest #had #men #out

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#baseball #began #game #gentlemanly #i

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#conscience #only #than #the only thing #thing

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#associated #been #communities #confess #country

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#magazines #out #sending #started #until

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#inspiration #make #person #perspiration #things

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#any #because #bodies #combined #come