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
ungrateful feelings ignorant
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
sorrow very-good
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
progress treasure language
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.
dream thinking years
Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.
sex serious creation
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
lucky masterpiece
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
flower love-is feet
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
ambition mad done
My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.
obstacles made evident
To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
flower oblivion graves
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
experience too-late lessons
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
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.)
freedom thinking silence
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
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 ...