Heywood Broun Quotes & Sayings

#1. A cat is nobody's fool.

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

#3. Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think?"
Gawaine could do no more than nod.
"Why, of course," exclaimed the dragon, "reactionary Republican.

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#4. Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

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#5. I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

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#6. Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

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#7. The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

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#8. Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

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#9. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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#10. 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.

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#11. As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.

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#12. Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

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#13. When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."

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#14. He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.

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#15. The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

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#16. With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak.
"What will you do if I surrender?" he asked.
"Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon.
"And if I don't surrender?"
"I'll eat you just the same.

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

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#18. He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

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