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
stranger wit
The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.
thinking common imagine
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
lying may speak
Particular lies may speak a general truth.
tolerance lasts intolerance
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ...
men taste dresses
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
sympathy expression certain
in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.
men world suits
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
sympathy hurt hands
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
success winning exertion
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ...
two way used
there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.
children thinking chance
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
men age singles
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
distance eye people
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes ...
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.