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
Men are blind in their own cause. – Heywood Broun
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. – Heywood Broun
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does! – 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
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
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
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – 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
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
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 tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. – Heywood Broun
I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. – Heywood Broun
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun
