Heywood Broun famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
-- Heywood Broun

#Inspirational #Sports #Baseball
A cat is nobody's fool.
-- Heywood Broun

#Cat #Fool
Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
-- Heywood Broun

#Believe #Vegetarian #Steak
The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
-- Heywood Broun

#Love #Making Love #Beast
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
-- Heywood Broun

#Heart #Young #Threat
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
-- Heywood Broun

#Love #Beast #Humans
For the truth there is no deadline.
-- Heywood Broun

#Deadline
For truth there is no deadline.
-- Heywood Broun

#Truth #Honesty #Deadline
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
-- Heywood Broun

#Baseball #Chivalry #Tradition
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
-- Heywood Broun

#Atheist #If There Is A God #Religion
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
-- Heywood Broun

#Happy Life #Community #Brotherhood
Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
-- Heywood Broun

#Thinking #Devil #Puritan
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
-- Heywood Broun

#God #Football #Sides
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

#Baseball #Feet #Together

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