184 Quotes About Modern-life

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.