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
home men doors
It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.
friends ignored neglected
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
freedom thinking silence
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
thinking may honey
One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.
humanity life-is vain
...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)
experience too-late lessons
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
weakness wickedness
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
heart attention moral
Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.
stupid folks publishers
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
together meals satisfaction
To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion ...
punishment misery prosperity
death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life ...
friendship real writing
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
art nature mind
art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...
life-is sin repentance
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.