302 Quotes by George Will

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow.

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.

Greed is envy with its sleeves rolled up.