Quotes from authors passed in 1697
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
John Aubrey
If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.
John Aubrey
Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
Antonio Vieira
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
John Aubrey
How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.
John Aubrey
George Clymer 
George Gobel 
Theodor Svedberg 
Dino De Laurentiis 
Marilyn Manson 
Glen Campbell 
Ruben Studdard 
Lord Kelvin