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
wise mistake source
But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.
expectations way looks
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
running thinking entitlement
You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.
venting emotion easier
[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.
long shadow dying
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
reform forefathers
We cannot reform our forefathers.
doctors constitution trifles
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
men weakness sacred
It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.
giving friendly opinion
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
useless-things useless consumerism
We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.
spring inspiration growing
the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.
water common-sense pumps
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
church band watches
the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
beautiful children happy-times
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.