Quotes from authors born in 1717
What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?
Richard Owen Cambridge
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Horace Walpole
There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.
Henry Middleton
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Horace Walpole
Eric Heiden 
Stan Getz 
David Byrne 
Ted Nelson 
Sun Ra 
Jane Roberts 
Stokely Carmichael 
Jan de Hartog