Heywood Broun Quotes

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

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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

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

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

For the truth there is no deadline.

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

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

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

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

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."

A cat is nobody's fool.

For truth there is no deadline.