Quotes from authors born in 1762
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
Joanna Baillie
Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers.
Andrew Cherry
I have nothing to say to the nothing that has been said.
Spencer Perceval
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Dave Davies 
Piet Mondrian 
Chen Ning Yang 
Vivien Leigh 
Robyn Hitchcock 
W. Somerset Maugham 
Antonin Scalia 
Lea Thompson