Quotes from authors born in 1848
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
Wyatt Earp
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur Balfour
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
Kenny Chesney 
Simon Le Bon 
Joan Blondell 
Mary Cheney 
Bill Weld 
Nana Visitor 
Julius Wellhausen 
William Hedgcock Webster