Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to… — Frank Welker Copy Share Image
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? — Paul J. Zak Copy Share Image
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
[Genderless marriage] is contrary to God's law, to revealed Word. Scripture, ancient and modern, could not be clearer on the definition that… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
[T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They… — Dean M. Davies Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Many of the short videos on Vine feel as though they belong to an ever-evolving, completely new genre of modern folk art. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since… — Thomas Sangster Copy Share Image
“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t. — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative.… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with… — Mitch Horowitz Copy Share Image
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image