Heywood Broun

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

— 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

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

— Heywood Broun

Men are blind in their own cause.

— Heywood Broun

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

— 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

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

— Heywood Broun

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

— Heywood Broun

Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!

— Heywood Broun

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

— 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

A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

— Heywood Broun

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

— Heywood Broun

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

— Heywood Broun