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
Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
John Churton Collins
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur Balfour
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
Cat Stevens 
Dana Carvey 
John Strachan 
John Barrymore 
James Lafferty 
Julian Cope 
Robert Forster 
Larry Cohen