Heywood Broun Quotations

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality

The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

In some respects the life of a censor is more exhilarating that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is to snip off the heads of men and women, who are mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever.

A cat is nobody's fool.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

For truth there is no deadline.

For the truth there is no deadline.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.