Quotes from authors born in 1700
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
James Thomson
Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
James Thomson
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
James Thomson
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
James Thomson
I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
James Thomson
Parker Posey 
Gustav Klimt 
Trevor Howard 
Edward Witten 
George Westinghouse 
Jill Dando 
Eric S. Raymond 
Melina Mercouri