Heywood Broun
» Atheism » “Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”
» Babies » “Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do.”
» Brotherhood » “Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.”
» Causes » “Men are blind in their own cause.”
» Committees and Meetings » “A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.”
» Fanatics and Fanaticism » “Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.”
» Gambling » “The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”
» Hell » “Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ”I can do no other.””
» Journalism and Journalists » “Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!”
» Life and Living » “The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.”
» Pessimism » “The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.”
» Politicians and Politics » “A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.”
» Posterity » “Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.”
» Sweat » “Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.”
