Heywood Broun Quotes


Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. Heywood Broun Work 124
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Heywood Broun Sports 104
Men are blind in their own cause. Heywood Broun Reason 103
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. Heywood Broun Adventure 85
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins. Heywood Broun Life 84
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. Heywood Broun Chance 83
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. Heywood Broun Gambling 82
Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. Heywood Broun Speech 78
Except that right side is up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are 152 distinctly different ways--and all are right! At least all will do. Heywood Broun Children 74
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. Heywood Broun Hell 71
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! Heywood Broun Journalism 71
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. Heywood Broun Ability 69
I have never understood the fear of some parents about babies getting mixed up in the hospital. What difference does it make as long as you get a good one? Heywood Broun Children 63
The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality. Heywood Broun Art 62
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. Heywood Broun 61
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. Heywood Broun Axes 59
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins. Heywood Broun Politics 57
In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. Heywood Broun Artist 56
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. Heywood Broun Fellowship 54
Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun Body 53
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. Heywood Broun Casual 43
Before I send him up in the hills Im going to give him a magic word. Thats a good idea said the Professor. Sometimes they work wonders. Heywood Broun Magic 43
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun Atheism 42
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. Heywood Broun Committee 42
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. Heywood Broun Fanaticism 39
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. Heywood Broun Pessimism 38
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. Heywood Broun Baby 36
We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart. Heywood Broun Speech 36
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. Heywood Broun Censorship 35

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