First Quote by Heywood Broun Download Open image “A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.” — Heywood Broun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare First Objection Refuge Scoundrel Technical
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel. — Horace Copy Share Image
When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it.… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Consult, v.t. To seek another’s approval of a course already decided on. Contempt, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson — Paras Copy Share Image
Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again. — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity” — David Hume Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time,… — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with." — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Men build bridges and throw railways across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts. — Heywood Broun Copy Share Image
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
