Heywood Broun (1888 – 1939) was an American journalist, sportswriter and newspaper columnist in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild.

Sourced

• The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.
  • "Bring on the Artist", New York World Telegram, June 19, 1933

• There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.
  • "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939

• Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
  • "A New Preface to an Old Story", Broun's Nutmeg, August 19, 1939
  • Collected Edition of Heywood Broun, compiled by Heywood Hale Broun. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1941, page 26

• Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
  • Quoted by Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

External links

• Works by Heywood Broun at Project Gutenberg