Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

    Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
    Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)