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
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.
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.
Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it
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.