Top 37 Heywood Broun Quotes
#1. Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun
#2. 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.
Heywood Broun
#3. In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.
Simon McBurney
#4. Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
Heywood Broun
#5. Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.
Corrine Brown
#6. 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."
Heywood Broun
#7. He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.
Heywood Broun
#8. The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
Heywood Broun
#10. 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.
Heywood Broun
#11. 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.
Heywood Broun
#12. 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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#13. The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
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#14. Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
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#16. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun
#19. A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood Broun
#20. I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Heywood Broun
#22. What sparked my interest in the combat sports in general was my older brother. I guess older brothers are supposed to pick on their young brothers, but mine took it to a whole new level. He broke my collarbone, broke my rib, and knocked my teeth out.
Jake Hecht
#23. When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender.
Paul David Tripp
#24. Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Heywood Broun
#25. 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.
Heywood Broun
#26. At thirty, she was a straight-backed, strong, short woman with rough red cheeks, a mountaineer's long stride, and a mountaineer's deep lungs.
Anonymous
#27. Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun
#28. The tragedy of life is not that a man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Hale Broun
#30. Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
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#31. 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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#32. Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.
Heywood Broun
#33. The whole point of collecting is the thrill of acquisition, which must be maximized, and maintained at all costs.
John Baxter
#34. The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.
Chuck Cannon
#35. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
#36. The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Hale Broun
#37. Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
Heywood Hale Broun
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