Best 17 quotes of Heywood Broun on MyQuotes

A cat is nobody's fool.

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

For truth there is no deadline.

God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.

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

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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

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

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with.

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.

Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.

As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.

Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons.

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

Rumplesnitz.

With the suggestion of a compromise Gawaine mustered up enough courage to speak. "What will you do if I surrender?" he asked. "Why, I'll eat you," said the dragon. "And if I don't surrender?" "I'll eat you just the same.