Heywood Broun

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.

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

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

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

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

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.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

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.

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.

Let's see," mused the dragon, "that doesn't tell us much, does it? What sort of a word is this? Is it an epithet, do you think?"Gawaine could do no more than nod."Why, of course," exclaimed the dragon, "reactionary Republican.

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.