George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
years two decision
It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.
queues form englishmen
An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.
dog cat
A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
sports thinking cricket-match
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
growing-up educational school
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
humility virtue
Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.
humorous suffering today
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
dog cat animal
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
hero men he-man
The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.
running literature hobbies
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
ideas literature trouble
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
inspirational discipline genius
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
love heart caring
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
philosophy mean experience
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.