| "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon." »Amy Vanderbilt |
| "Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." »Dr. Martin Henry Fischer |
| "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better." »George Santayana |
| "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before." »Edith Wharton |
| "The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others." »Marilyn Ferguson |
| "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi |
| "There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress." »Charles W. Eliot |
| "One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." »Kurt Vonnegut |
| "It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset." »Sir Arthur Eddington |
| "I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers." »Albert Camus |
| "modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it." »Vaclav Havel |
| "Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things." »Woody Allen |
| "Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." »Winston Churchill |
| "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." »Ronald Reagan |
| "All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut." »Louis Booker Wright |
| "A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." »Oscar Wilde |
| "The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." »James Barrie |
| "modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." »Erich Fromm |
| "I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living." »Hal |
| "Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz |
| "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems." »John W. Gardner |
| "modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman." »David M. Ogilvy |
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