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
thinking fortune cheerfulness
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
busybodies
Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
littles modern states
It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.
thinking bored bores
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
mistake men world
autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.
littles appearance
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
vanishing causes fit
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.
cutting action one-thing
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
spring giving justice
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
women winning thinking
To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.
women grace suffering
They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
lying women royal
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
women elements virtue
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
water cheerful months
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.