Modern Life Quotes:

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

- A. N. Wilson

topic: Thinking, Modern Life, Tests

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

- Alexander Lowen

topic: Community, Would Be, Modern Life

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Way, Faces, Modern Life, Warranty, Appliances

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Pain, Mean, Modern Life, Medical Science

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

- Aubrey McClendon

topic: Modern Life, Natural, Chemicals

Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

- Barack Obama

topic: Christian, Modern Life, Divinity, Muslim Faith, Ten Commandments

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Boys, Modern Life, Young, Scouting, Camaraderie

It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

- Ben Aaronovitch

source: Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.10, Del Rey

topic: Long, Modern Life, London

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

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Effort, Progress, Modern Life

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Able, Modern Life, Trouble

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

- Brit Marling

topic: Moving, Email, Modern Life, Sense Of Wonder, Text Message

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Modern Life, Disease, Fool

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

- Bruce Barton

topic: Men, Modern Life, Realizing

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

- Charles Dudley Warner

topic: Real, Simple, Modern Life, Artificiality

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Men, Desire, Modern Life

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

- danah boyd

source: danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

topic: Running, Water, Modern Life, Running Water

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Keys, Boredom, Modern Life

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

- David Foster Wallace

topic: Keys, Boredom, Modern Life

The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

- David Gerrold

topic: Race, Modern Life, Problem

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

- Ed Koch

topic: Enemy, Modern Life, Cuban

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

- Edward Ruscha

topic: Anxiety, Modern Life, Speed

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.

- Edward Teller

topic: Modern Life, Looks, Purpose

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Circles, Modern Life, Crash

A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Museums, Perfect, Modern Life, Metropolitan

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

- Frank Mankiewicz

topic: Squares, Water, Modern Life, Rustic, Quaint

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

- Gael Greene

topic: Modern Life, Pounds, Reason

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

- George Ade

topic: People, Bed, Modern Life, Prominent, Influential People

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

- Gerald Stanley Lee

source: Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

topic: Rooms, Principles, Modern Life

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Believe, Flower, Modern Life

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

- Guy Lombardo

topic: New Year, Years, Modern Life

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus ***** boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Modern Life, Primates, Peasants

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Men, Modern Life, Baptists, John The Baptist

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Japan, Fake, Modern Life

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

- Herbert Hoover

source: Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

topic: Mean, Men, Modern Life

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

- Herbert Stein

topic: Modern Life, Patient, Modern

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

- James Crumley

source: FaceBook post by James Crumley from Mar 18, 2016

topic: Sound, Warfare, Modern Life

Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about nowadays is getting in touch with their feelings. ... The world has become one enormous group therapy session. It's a terrible bore. My motto is, 'Thank you for not sharing!

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

topic: Feelings, Groups, Modern Life, Group Therapy

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

- Jerry Adler

topic: Beer, Modern Life, Goldfish

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

- Jess Lair

topic: Giving, Bars, Modern Life, Skinner

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

- Jessica Savitch

source: Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

topic: Men, Facts, Modern Life

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

- John B. S. Haldane

topic: Modern Life, Safe, Modern

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

- John Buchan

topic: Civilization, Modern Life, Quiet, Compact

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

- John Lyly

source: John Lyly (1916). “Euphues”

topic: Three, Modern Life, Guests

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

- Johnny Carson

topic: Character, Modern Life, Plutonium, Disney Character

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

- Jonathan Alter

source: Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

topic: Cancer, Modern Life, Littles

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

- Jorma Kaukonen

topic: Ddt, Long, Modern Life, Lettuce, Crisps

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

- Kin Hubbard

topic: Doctors, Modern Life, Poor

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

- King Edward VIII

topic: Golf, Play, Modern Life

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Character, Water, Modern Life

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: That Was the Year That Was (record album) (1965)

topic: Modern Life, May, Chiefs, Interstellar

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

- Lance Morrow

topic: Modern Life, Might, Mail, Interstate, Airborne

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

- Malcolm Potts

topic: Pills, Modern Life, Machines, Slot Machines, Prescriptions

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.

- Matthew Arnold

topic: Heart, Sick, Modern Life, Thames

You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.

- Mike Connolly

topic: Girl, Daughter, Modern Life

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

- Neel Burton

source: Neel Burton (2017). “Growing from Depression, second edition”, p.61, Acheron Press

topic: Healthy, Modern Life, Absurd, Modern Society, Life Has No Meaning

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Modern Life, Mysterious, Secrecy, Marvelous

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Simple, Honor, Modern Life, Life Is Simple, Modern Literature

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life.

- Paul Winter

topic: Inspiration, People, Modern Life, Music Making

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

- Philip K. Dick

topic: Secret, Important, Modern Life

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

- Ralph Adams Cram

source: RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

topic: Numbers, Weight, Modern Life

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

- Richard Condon

topic: Order, Modern Life, Made, Sears, General Motors

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

- Richard Conniff

topic: Black, Age, Modern Life, Black Death

I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.

- Richard Davidson

topic: Thinking, Focus, Modern Life, Messiness

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Goal, Use, Modern Life

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Needs, Modern Life, Becoming

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

- Robert Motherwell

topic: Art, Modern Life, Unconventional, Individualistic, Abstract Art

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

- Robert Orben

topic: Book, School, Modern Life

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.

- Robert Warshow

topic: Art, Quality, Modern Life

A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

- Russell Baker

topic: One Day, Bars, Modern Life, Candy Bar, Mary Jane

Now scarcely a week goes by without a news story about the cops swooping down on some adolescent prowler who is as skilled at breaking into computer systems as defense contractors are at breaking into the Federal budget.

- Russell Baker

topic: Defense, Modern Life, News, Computer Systems

Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does.

- Sam Levenson

source: Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.31, Open Road Media

topic: Children, Giving, Modern Life, Spanking

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Taxation, Modern Life, Should, Forefathers, Taxation Without Representation

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

- Sam Levenson

topic: Modern Life, Modern, Taxes

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

- Susan Orlean

topic: Choices, Modern Life, Internet, Overload, Paralysis

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

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

topic: Loss, Culture, Modern Life, Sharpness, Plenitude

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Roots, Modern Life, Demand, Frenzy, Carried Away

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

- Walter Cronkite

topic: Modern Life, Rooms, Telephones

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

- Wernher von Braun

topic: Moon, Land, Modern Life

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

- Wilson Mizner

topic: Mind, Trying, Modern Life

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

- Zygmunt Bauman

topic: Liquid, Modern Life, Circumstances

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

- Albert Renger-Patzsch

topic: Photography, Modern Life, Life Is, Thinkable

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

- Jacob Braude

topic: Modern Life, Use, Antiques

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Would Be, Modern Life, England, Czechoslovakia

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

- Drake Bell

source: Source: www.thestarscoop.com

topic: Dark, Generations, Modern Life, Nickelodeon

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Men, Modern Life, Modern

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

- Lewis Gordon

source: Source: www.aaihs.org

topic: Reflection, Modern Life, Mature

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Usa, Liberty, Modern Life, National Debt

Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

- Paul Harvey

source: Source: www.azom.com

topic: Style, Modern Life, Tools, Life Style

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

- Francis Ford Coppola

topic: Artist, Trying, Modern Life

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Modern Life, Architecture, Modern

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Modern Life, Plumber, Ifs

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

- Alexander Rodchenko

topic: Cameras, Modern Life, Describing

Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

- Phyllis Diller

topic: People, Modern Life, Fruitcake

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Guy, Modern Life, Taxes

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Shoes, Lucky, Modern Life, If The Shoe Fits

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.

- Dani Shapiro

source: "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

topic: Modern Life, Down And, Way

In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.

- Andrew Weil

topic: People, Modern Life, World

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Discovery, Modern Life, Vastness

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

- Giorgio Armani

source: Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.

topic: Modern Life, Modern, Attire

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

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.15, Penguin

topic: Moving, Modern Life, Life Is, Thoughtfulness

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

- John Taylor Gatto

source: John Taylor Gatto (2000). “A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling”

topic: Children, Lying, Modern Life

Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

- Aubrey Beardsley

source: David Colvin, Aubrey Beardsley (1998). “Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty”, Welcome Rain Publishers

topic: Beautiful, Soap, Modern Life

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

- Aziz Ansari

source: Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg (2015). “Modern Romance”, p.12, Penguin

topic: Past, Appreciate, Modern Life, Simpler Times

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

source: B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

topic: Effort, Balance, Modern Life

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

- Robert Benchley

source: Robert Benchley (2010). “The Athletic Benchley: 105 Exercises from the Detroit Athletic Club News”, p.25, Glendower Media

topic: Children, Class, Modern Life, Bulgaria

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.

- Robert Benchley

source: Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.33, Courier Corporation

topic: Night, Office, Modern Life, Congestion, Anagrams

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

- Don DeLillo

topic: Fun, Modern Life, Boring

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Exercise, Principles, Modern Life, Manual Work, Sedentary

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

topic: Desire, Three, Modern Life

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: Years, Modern Life, Goes On

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers (1961). “The Will Rogers Book”

topic: Car, Modern Life, Way

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.

- Will Rogers

topic: Running, Horse, Modern Life

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.64, Random House

topic: Stress, Modern Life, Life Is

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.

- Eric McCormack

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Thinking, Hopeful, Modern Life

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Pride, Cooking, Modern Life

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Relief, Modern Life, Life Is

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

- James Thurber

topic: Generations, Modern Life, Trouble, Lost Generation

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

- James Thurber

topic: Funny, Humor, Modern Life

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.33, Bibliolis Books

topic: Real, Modern Life, Elements

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

- Simone Weil

source: Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.153, Psychology Press

topic: Modern Life, Action, Life Is

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.34, Diversion Books

topic: Depressing, Real, Modern Life

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.16, Oscar Wilde

topic: Running, Modern Life, Danger