"The concept of a golden age is natural to all nations and proves only that people are never satisfied with the present and, from experience having little hope in the future, they adorn the irrevocable past with all the colourful fancies of their imagination."

- Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin

"After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history"

- unknown

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones"

- Chinese proverb

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it"

- John Ruskin

"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners."

- E. Joseph Cossman

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

- Marcel Proust

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