Big problem in the world re. the last quote!

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
-- Edward Gibbon

"What happens when the future has come and gone?"
-- Robert Half

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
-- Samuel Johnson

"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth."
-- Charles Luckman