Quotes by Heywood Broun

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
– Heywood Broun
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
– 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
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
– Heywood Broun
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
– Heywood Broun
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
– 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 man loses but that he almost wins.
– Heywood Broun
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
– Heywood Broun
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
– Heywood Broun
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
– Heywood Broun