Heywood Broun

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Nobody talks about God as those who insist that there is no God.

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.

We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.

Winners never quit and quitters never win. Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.