Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.