Heywood Broun Quotes
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~ Heywood Broun Quote
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
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.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
~ Heywood Broun Quote
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 Quote
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.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
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
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
~ Heywood Broun Quote
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach
~ Heywood Broun Quote
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts
~ Heywood Broun Quote
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
~ Heywood Broun Quote
