Modern Day Exit

Famous quotes containing the words modern, day and/or exit:

    “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 head o’ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife—”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.”
    —Anonymous. Quoted in Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia, third edition (1987)

    “Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex,
    Rex and principium, exit the whole
    Shebang. Exeunt omnes. Here was prose
    More exquisite than any tumbling verse:
    A still new continent in which to dwell.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)