The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
GEORGE F. WILL Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
GEORGE F. WILL Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will sei...
GEORGE F. WILL If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys prec...
GEORGE F. WILL Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE F. WILL Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
GEORGE F. WILL The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and s...
GEORGE F. WILL Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE F. WILL We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the un...
GEORGE F. WILL The problem with intelligent design theory is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable: N...
GEORGE F. WILL The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa...
GEORGE F. WILL It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE F. WILL Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French.
GEORGE F. WILL This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.
GEORGE F. WILL Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE F. WILL Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now ...
GEORGE F. WILL The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic o...
GEORGE F. WILL Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
GEORGE F. WILL Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading ...
GEORGE F. WILL The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a...
GEORGE F. WILL Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.
GEORGE F. WILL When America uses power, it makes people angry, but it gets their attention.
GEORGE F. WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE F. WILL You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you l...
GEORGE F. WILL This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant
GEORGE F. WILL Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction...
GEORGE F. WILL Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE F. WILL The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE F. WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE F. WILL Football features two of the worst aspects of American life, violence and committee meetings.
GEORGE F. WILL A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "l...
GEORGE F. WILL Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
GEORGE F. WILL Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues ...
GEORGE F. WILL Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of str...
GEORGE F. WILL You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of Ame...
GEORGE F. WILL The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
GEORGE F. WILL Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all ...
GEORGE F. WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie-frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE F. WILL All God's chillun got shoes or can get them in Mrs Marcos's closet, which is large enough to house M...
GEORGE F. WILL Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique ste...
GEORGE F. WILL Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.
GEORGE F. WILL Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
GEORGE F. WILL Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost eve...
GEORGE F. WILL Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.
GEORGE F. WILL Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE F. WILL Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
GEORGE F. WILL Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes me...
GEORGE F. WILL American politics as you know . . . is very often a matter of capture the flag. The party that loses...
GEORGE F. WILL The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism
GEORGE F. WILL The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE F. WILL Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The gove...
GEORGE F. WILL Lacking an articulable defense of the cultural values under siege, he became a vessel of smoldering ...
GEORGE F. WILL Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.
GEORGE F. WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE F. WILL Government breeds more government, and a lobbying infrastructure to defend itself.
GEORGE F. WILL Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an...
GEORGE F. WILL Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE F. WILL All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a ...
GEORGE WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE WILL Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE WILL Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committ...
GEORGE WILL Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE WILL The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE WILL We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE WILL It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE WILL It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that withou...
GEORGE WILL She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no t...
GEORGE WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasa...
GEORGE WILL The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
GEORGE WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE WILL Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
GEORGE WILL Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction...
GEORGE WILL Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee m...
GEORGE WILL Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say foot...
GEORGE WILL Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
GEORGE WILL Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many America...
GEORGE WILL Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind...
GEORGE WILL I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions ...
GEORGE WILL If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
GEORGE WILL Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern politica...
GEORGE WILL Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media...
GEORGE WILL Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes me...
GEORGE WILL Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar wi...
GEORGE WILL Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
GEORGE WILL A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible &#...
GEORGE WILL Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has be...
GEORGE WILL Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marve...
GEORGE WILL Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meeting...
GEORGE WILL Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will sei...
GEORGE WILL Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation o...
GEORGE WILL Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
GEORGE WILL America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the ...
GEORGE WILL The designs of the paper euros, introduced in 2002, proclaim a utopian aspiration. Gone are the colo...
GEORGE WILL Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneou...
GEORGE WILL Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally...
GEORGE WILL Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning,...
GEORGE WILL Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pai...
GEORGE WILL A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks abou...
GEORGE WILL Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statute...
GEORGE WILL Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their...
GEORGE WILL Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands th...
GEORGE WILL I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Wh...
GEORGE WILL If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live...
GEORGE WILL The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candid...
GEORGE WILL The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
GEORGE WILL Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all ...
GEORGE WILL Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approx...
GEORGE WILL Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
GEORGE WILL Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence ...
GEORGE WILL Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a...
GEORGE WILL The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state...
GEORGE WILL If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and h...
GEORGE WILL The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
GEORGE WILL Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
GEORGE WILL World War II was the last government program that really worked.
GEORGE WILL Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingl...
GEORGE WILL Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
GEORGE WILL Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and ...
GEORGE WILL As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
GEORGE WILL Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the mor...
GEORGE WILL I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to th...
GEORGE WILL Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state...
GEORGE WILL I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, i...
GEORGE WILL Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents bee...
GEORGE WILL Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
GEORGE WILL In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped Amer...
GEORGE WILL Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
GEORGE WILL Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it l...
GEORGE WILL Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts wit...
GEORGE WILL When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merit...
GEORGE WILL Forever seeking Archimedean levers for prying the world in directions they prefer, progressives say ...
GEORGE WILL I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost....
GEORGE WILL The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he ...
GEORGE F. HOAR If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than...
GEORGE F. PENTECOST Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.
GEORGE F. BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty
GEORGE F. BURNS Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
GEORGE F. KENNAN The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a ...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
GEORGE F. BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE F. BURNS By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more co...
GEORGE F. KENNAN The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as cl...
GEORGE F. BURNS Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fello...
GEORGE F. MCDOUGALL The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
GEORGE F. KENNAN The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized pe...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE F. BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE F. BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE F. BURNS I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm ...
GEORGE F. BURNS People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a patern...
GEORGE F. BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE F. BURNS Heroism ... is endurance for one moment more.
GEORGE F. KENNAN We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the l...
GEORGE F. KENNAN The best [an American] can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on ...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orienta...
GEORGE F. KENNAN I shall always remember you-slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion-pumping hot wat...
GEORGE F. KENNAN If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.
GEORGE F. BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE F. BURNS Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE F. BURNS It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or ...
GEORGE F. BURNS You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE F. BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope
GEORGE F. BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE F. BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE F. BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE F. BURNS At my age flowers scare me.
GEORGE F. BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate
GEORGE F. BURNS Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
GEORGE F. BURNS The reason we're doing this now is because I'm booked to play Pasadena the week of my 100th birthday
GEORGE F. BURNS This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
GEORGE F. BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE F. BURNS I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
GEORGE F. BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex ...
GEORGE F. BURNS People are always asking me when I’m going to retire. Why should I? I’ve got it two ways - I’m...
GEORGE F. BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE F. BURNS Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair
GEORGE F. BURNS The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE F. BURNS Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE F. BURNS Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
GEORGE F. BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE F. BURNS Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
GEORGE F. BURNS I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r...
GEORGE F. BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do w...
GEORGE F. BURNS The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overt...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations...
GEORGE F. KENNAN [The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorshi...
GEORGE F. KENNAN The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Ru...
GEORGE F. KENNAN If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its work...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...
GEORGE F. KENNAN One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH