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
passion men vanity
The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.
vanity noses conceit
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
trust men deeds
I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.
believe men brave
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
grief love-is effort
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
believe leisure vacuums
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
people crow suspicion
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
horse believe superstitions
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
soul opinion contradictory
The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
sorrow despair young
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
pain sorrow ears
Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.
blessed sky golden
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
silence expressive
Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
selfishness littles poor
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.