Modern Life Quotes - Page 4

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.

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

A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

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

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