Quotes by Heywood Broun

• Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
• A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
• Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
• Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
• I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
• Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
• The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
• The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
• 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.
• The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
• Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.