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
writing men thinking
We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.
book irony
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
thank-god facts rejoice
Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.
flirting thinking meals
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.
majority reason ifs
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
thinking breakfast dinner
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
appreciation differences hardest
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
exercise italian growth
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
enthusiasm chill
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
vow marriage-vows absurdity
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
fighting effort causes
When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
memories past past-memories
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ...
death journey goal
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
stories love-story novel
almost all novels are love stories.