Famous Quotes / Heywood Broun
16 Quotations by Heywood Broun
- 1. A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins.
- 2. A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
- 3. Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for a ...
- 4. Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hu ...
- 5. Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, "I can do no other."
- 6. I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure w ...
- 7. Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a cr ...
- 8. Men are blind in their own cause.
- 9. Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- 10. Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
- 11. Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
- 12. The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of ma ...
- 13. The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is ...
- 14. The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
- 15. The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
- 16. Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!