Quotes from authors born in 1785
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
Thomas Love Peacock
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Thomas Love Peacock
Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
John Wilson
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
Thomas de Quincey
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
Jim Kolbe 
Hugh Grant 
Francois Duvalier 
Henry Moore 
Patton Oswalt 
John Warner 
Allen Tate 
David Krumholtz