Quotes from authors born in 1634
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Bishop Robert South
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
Robert South
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Robert South
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.
Thomas Tryon
W. H. Auden 
Gro Harlem Brundtland 
Molly Shannon 
Robert Reich 
Alison Moyet 
Josefa Iloilo 
Brian Littrell 
Wilmer Valderrama