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
honesty eggs stealing
He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
hands gold lost
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
easter jew
The Jews spend at Easter.
light long burden
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
black pennies
The smith and his penny both are black.
skins dies
The wolf must die in his own skin.
barefoot
Better a barefoot than none.
men proportion limbs
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
law rooms action
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
pieces fit
A piece of a Churchyard fits everybody.
mind done may
Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.
play fancy toys
If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.
pain joy deeds
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
may holy peril
Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.