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 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
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
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 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.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground
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.
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
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.