Quotes from authors born in 1723
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
Adam Smith
Defense is superior to opulence.
Adam Smith
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
Joshua Reynolds
Bill Laswell 
Bob Corker 
Tony Williams 
Meg Whitman 
Alex O'Loughlin 
Hedda Hopper 
Jami Gertz 
Gordon Lightfoot