Heywood Broun Quotes

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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

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

A cat is nobody's fool.

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

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic 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."

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

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

For the truth there is no deadline.

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

For truth there is no deadline.

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

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

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.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

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