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
The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality
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.
The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it
In some respects the life of a censor is more exhilarating that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is to snip off the heads of men and women, who are mere mortals. The censor can decapitate ideas which but for him might have lived forever.
A cat is nobody's fool.
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.