Heywood Broun
American sportswriter (1888-1939)
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.
Quotes
edit- 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.
- Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms, George H Doran Company, 1922. Quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 124).
- 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.
- Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms, George H Doran Company, 1922. Quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 134).
- The average editor cannot escape feeling that telling a writer to do something is almost the same thing as performing it himself.
- Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms, George H Doran Company, 1922. Quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 231).
- 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.
- Pieces of Hate and Other Enthusiasms, George H Doran Company, 1922. Quoted in Hovey, E. Paul, The Treasury for Special Days and Occasions. Revell, 1994 (pg. 246).
- The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
- "Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933
- There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
- "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
- Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, page 26
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
- Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941. Quoted in Murphy, Edward F. Webster's Treasury of Relevant Quotations , Greenwich House, New York, 1983 (pg. 487).
- Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
- Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)
