Heywood Broun Quotes

• Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

  Heywood Broun

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

  Heywood Broun

  Believe, Vegetarian, Appeasement

  "The Wisdom of China and India". Book by Lin Yutang, 1942.

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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 Broun

  Heart, Young, Threat

  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 Broun

  Love, Beast, Humans

  "It seems to me, 1925-1935".

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• For the truth there is no deadline.

  Heywood Broun

  Deadline

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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."

  Heywood Broun

  Baseball, Chivalry, Tradition

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• For truth there is no deadline.

  Heywood Broun

  Truth, Honesty, Deadline

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• A cat is nobody's fool.

  Heywood Broun

  Cat, Fool, Animal Rights

  Heywood Broun (1935). “It seems to me, 1925-1935”, 1935.

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

  Heywood Broun

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  "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.

  Heywood Broun

  Happy Life, Community, Brotherhood

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

  Heywood Broun

  Thinking, Devil, Puritan

  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 Broun

  God, Football, Sides

  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

  Baseball, Feet, Together

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