| "But, for my own part, it was greek to me." »William Shakespeare |
| "I am not an Athenian or a greek, but a citizen of the world." »Socrates |
| "It was a greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise." »Henry Kissinger |
| "The ancient greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." »John F. Kennedy |
| "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 |
| "To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian lemon and cinnamon make it greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese garlic makes it good." »Alice May Brock |
| "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 |
| "Walking is the world's oldest exercise and todays modern medicine" »Johnny Wowk |
| "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 |
| "Merrill Morgan, this crop stuff is just about a bunch of nerds who never had a girlfriend their whole lives. They're like thirty now. They make up secret codes and analyze greek mythology and make secret societies where other guys who never had girlfriends can join in. They do stupid crap like this to feel special. It's a scam. Nerds were doin' it twenty five years ago and new nerds are doing it again." »Signs |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." »James Barrie |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
