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
failure air people
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
language slang
correct English is the slang of prigs ...
use pockets filling
It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
religious taken fate
Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
life air games
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.
children deeds may
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
gout rich accepting
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...
strong argument formidable
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
life long lessons
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
men opportunity use
What is opportunity to a man who can't use it.
wise men empty
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
art men doe
If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
pregnancy trying childbirth
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
animal feet pet-loss
Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?