Heywood Broun quotes:

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.

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."

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

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

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

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

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.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

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

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

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

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

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.

A cat is nobody's fool.

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

For the truth there is no deadline.

For truth there is no deadline.

The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.

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