Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. ClarkA modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
Fernand LegerThe problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't
Emma IadanzaThe rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.
John Lothrop Motley