Being a well-dressed person is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Clothing
In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Fame
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! At least all will do.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Babies, Children
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Evil, Gambling, Chance
Repartee is what you wish you’d said.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Wit
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Football
I have never understood the fear of some parents about babies getting mixed up in the hospital. What difference does it make as long as you get a good one?
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Children
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, “I can do no other.”
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Hell
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Golf
The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Art
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