Modern Dry Fly

Famous quotes containing the words modern, dry and/or fly:

“No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945)

“I knew very well that this hope was chimerical. I was like a pauper who mingles fewer tears with his dry bread if he tells himself that at any moment a stranger will bequeath to him his fortune. We must all, in order to make reality more tolerable, keep alive in us a few little follies.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)