Modern Age

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or age:

“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)