1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
Heywood Broun – [Politicians and Politics]
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood Broun – [Committees and Meetings]
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun – [Brotherhood]
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 – [Babies]
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
Heywood Broun – [Hell]
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 – [Fanatics and Fanaticism]
Men are blind in their own cause.
Heywood Broun – [Causes]
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun – [Atheism]
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Heywood Broun – [Posterity]
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
Heywood Broun – [Sweat]
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 – [Pessimism]
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun – [Life and Living]
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun – [Gambling]
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
Heywood Broun – [Journalism and Journalists]