Quotes from authors born in 1685
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
George Berkeley
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.
John Gay
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
John Gay
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
George Berkeley
But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.
John Gay
Jean Anouilh 
Paul Newman 
Brian Littrell 
Morey Amsterdam 
Horst Koehler 
Jacky Ickx 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
Helge Ingstad