Heywood Campbell Broun, Jr. (1888–1939) was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills.
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, “I can do no other.”
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Hell
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
Repartee is what you wish you’d said.
—Heywood Broun
The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Art
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
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
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
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
—Heywood Broun
Topics: Chance, Gambling, Evil
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