Heywood Broun
Heywood Broun
Heywood Campbell Broun, Jr.was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground
I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down
Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it
Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
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.