72 Quotes by Heywood Broun

A cat is nobody’s fool.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, “Do anything you can get away with.”

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don’t read.

I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.

I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.