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
phrases serious misery
There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
wise believe fire
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
ignorance fighting fog
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
ignorance may pills
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
pride self satisfaction
One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
kindness home thoughtful
He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.
disappointment lying forever
You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es
latin people awkward
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
art men temptation
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
spiritual shoes feet
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.
inspirational life good-intentions
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
our-thoughts
Our thoughts are often worse than we are.
men air evil
There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
truth disposition colour
The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer.