302 Quotes by George Will

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

It is an old baseball joke that big-inning baseball is affirmed in the Bible, in Genesis. "In the big inning, God created...

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

The education of this president [Obama] is a protracted and often amusing process . . . as he continues to alight upon the obvious with a sense of profound and original discovery.

The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.