Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

    Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.
    Walter Pater (1839–1894)