Quotes of Heywood Broun - somelinesforyou

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

- Heywood Broun

“ Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ 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

“ I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul. stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. ”

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

“ 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

“ The swaggering underemphasis of New England. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ The swaggering underemphasis of New England. ”

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

“ Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads 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. ”

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

“ Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads 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. ”

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

“ 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

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

- Heywood Broun

“ 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

“ Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ”

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

“ A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ 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

“ 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

“ The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins. ”

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

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

- Heywood Broun

“ 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

“ Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ”

- Heywood Broun

“ A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins. ”

- Heywood Broun
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