Quotes from authors born in 1744
Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams
It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
David Allan
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail Adams
John Betjeman 
Klaus Kinkel 
Neil Young 
Michael Andretti 
Natalie Merchant 
Jonathan Ross 
Joyce Grenfell 
Howard Hodgkin