Quotes by Heywood Broun

Heywood Broun

American Journalist, Novelist

Lived from: 1888 - 1939

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 7 december 1888 Died: 18 december 1939

  • Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
  • 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.
  • Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''

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  • The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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  • The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
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  • A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
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  • A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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  • Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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  • 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.
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  • Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, ''I can do no other.''
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  • I have known people to stop and buy an apple on the corner and then walk away as if they had solved the unemployment problem.
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  • 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.
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  • Men are blind in their own cause.
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  • Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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  • Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
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  • Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
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  • Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
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  • The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
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What are the most famous quotes from Heywood Broun?

The two most famous quotes from Heywood Broun are:

  • "The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality."
  • "The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil."

When did Heywood Broun live?

Heywood Broun was born in 1888 and died in the year 1939.