Heywood C. Broun Quotes (9 Quotes)

All there is to be said for work as opposed to dancing is that it is so much easier.

The average child is an almost non-existent myth. To be normal one must be peculiar in some way or another.

There are to us no ties at all just in being a father. A son is distinctly an acquired taste. It's the practice of parenthood that makes you feel that, after all, there may be something in it.

For truth there is no deadline.

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -- and all are right.

Men build bridges and throw railroads 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.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.

In some respects the life of a censor is more exhilarating that of an emperor. The best the emperor can do is to 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.