Heywood Broun Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“A cat is nobody's fool.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : Heywood Broun (1935). “It seems to me, 1925-1935”, 1935.
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“Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : "The Wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, 1942.
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“The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”
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“The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”
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“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : "It seems to me, 1925-1935".
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“The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."”
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“Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : "Collected Edition of Heywood Broun". Book by Heywood Broun (p. 26), 1941.
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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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“Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”
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“God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.”
-- Heywood BrounSource : Heywood Broun (1921). “Seeing things at night”
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“When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."”
-- Heywood Broun
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