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
women female murderer
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
women world pitfalls
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
years twenties vegetarian
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
mistake struggle trying
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!
passion evil tunes
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?
taken ignorance dust
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.
reading progress saws
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
principles program platitudes
Principles without programs are platitudes.
skins fancy dresses
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
brain left-hand lefties
Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.
progress unreasonable persons
All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
self self-control quality
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
mind stones relief
With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.
truth knowledge media
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.