Quotes from Heywood Broun

I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.

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

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.

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

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

Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.

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

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

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

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.

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.

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

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

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

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.

Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads 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.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

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