Quotes from authors born in 1581
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury
A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length consisting of 100 links.
Edmund Gunter
Beauty is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury
Horace Walpole 
Lech Walesa 
John Edward Redmond 
Charles Sturt 
Greta Van Susteren 
Neil Tennant 
Rockwell Kent 
Edvard Munch