Heywood Broun Quotes

1888–1939 United States

Heywood Campbell Broun Jr. (December 7, 1888 – December 18, 1939) was an American journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild.

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Also known as: Broun, Heywood

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

There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

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.

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012)

The average editor cannot escape feeling that telling a writer to do something is almost the same thing as performing it himself.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

In some respects, the life of a censor is more exhilarating than that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is 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.

The body of the Unknown Soldier has come home, but his spirit will wander with that of his brothers. There will be no rest for his soul until the great democracy of death has been translated into the unity of life.

For a person in rugged health who is not particularly dressed up and does not want to write a letter or read the newspaper, we can imagine few diversions more enjoyable than to have a child turned loose upon him.

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