Author: Heywood Broun

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

- 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

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- 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 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

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

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