Quotes from authors born in 1754
The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph Joubert
If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert
Stephen Rea 
John Winthrop 
Bruce Wasserstein 
Gene Roddenberry 
Alvin Toffler 
Rob Reiner 
John Turturro 
Jimmy Haynes