Modern State

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or state:

“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.

A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)

“The state is not “abolished,” it withers away.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)