Author: Heywood Broun

Quotes

Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.

Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.

- Heywood Broun

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

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

- Heywood Broun

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

- Heywood Broun

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

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

- Heywood Broun

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

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

- Heywood Broun

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

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

- Heywood Broun

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

- Heywood Broun

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

- Heywood Broun

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

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

- Heywood Broun

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