George Will famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
-- George Will

#Sports #Baseball #Games
Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.
-- George Will

#Running #People #Office
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'
-- George Will

#Gun #Boys #Ducks
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
-- George Will

#Thinking #Political #Politics
I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.
-- George Will

#Moving #Law #Care
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
-- George Will

#Inspirational #Funny #Nice
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
-- George Will

#Change #Future #History
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
-- George Will

#Mean #Sacrifice #Class
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
-- George Will

#Issues #Political #Voting
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
-- George Will

#Political #Liberty #Libertarian
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
-- George Will

#Sports #Athlete #Excellence
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
-- George Will

#Spiritual #Children #Tests
We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous,
-- George Will

#Country #Years #Ideas
Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
-- George Will

#Apples #Pie #Cheesy
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.
-- George Will

#Common Sense #Age #Common
It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
-- George Will

#Positive Thinking #Ordinary #Persons
The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.
-- George Will

#Cat #Phrases #Oxymoron
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
-- George Will

#Work #Character #Perfection
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
-- George Will

#Football #Inspiration #Nfl
As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
-- George Will

#Communication #Noise #Normal
All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.
-- George Will

#Wedding Day #Remember #Cubs
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
-- George Will

#Baseball #Games #Long
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge
-- George Will

#Knowledge #Civilization #Want
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
-- George Will

#School #Intelligent #Design
Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
-- George Will

#Baseball #Thinking #Trivia
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.
-- George Will

#Space #Work Out #Mind
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is a complex creation of laws and mores... Capitalism is a government program.
-- George Will

#Spring #Government #Law

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