"The tragedy of life is not that man……" — Heywood Broun
"The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins."
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21 Quotes by Heywood Broun
Heywood Broun has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
- A cat is nobody's fool.
- Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
- The ablity to make love frivolously is the thing which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
- Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
- I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
- The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and…
- The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
- A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
- Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.