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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
(I came -
Thomas Paine
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
2. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.
An unexamined life
Thomas Jefferson
George Carlin
Benjamin Franklin
3. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Ansel Adams
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Robert Oppenheimer
4. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
C. S. Lewis
You see things;
Laozi
Benjamin Franklin
5. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Henry David Thoreau
George Washington
Thomas Edison
William Shakespeare
6. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Henry David Thoreau
Take it.
John Wayne
Mother Teresa
7. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Therefore I am.
Oscar Wilde
But wisdom listens.
Mother Teresa
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Is fear itself
Mark Twain
9. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
James Branch Cabell
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare
Thomas Aquinas
10. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Yogi Berra
Laozi
C. S. Lewis
Theodore Roosevelt
11. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
HenryFord
Is showing up.
In the gym -
12. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
And you say Why?
George Santayana
John Milton
Muhammad Ali
13. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Benjamin Franklin
Dorothy Parker
Mark Twain
An eye for an eye
14. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Is showing up.
Bertrand Russell
Plato
Carl Sagan
15. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Francis Bacon
Isaac Asimov
Carl Sagan
Pablo Picasso
16. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Thomas Aquinas
Peace at any price -
Thomas Watson
17. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Enemy to none.
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
Muhammad Ali
18. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Will Rogers
Richard P. Feynman
Scott Adams
Every rocket fired -
19. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____
Bjarne Stroustrup
C. S. Lewis
I saw -
It was here first.
20. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
To be the candle
Time
Steve Wozniak
Napoleon Bonaparte
21. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Naked people have
Mark Twain
Carl Sagan
George Santayana
22. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Ronald Reagan
Cleaning your house
A new nation -
Pablo Picasso
23. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Thats relativity.
Tears and sweat.
Carl Sagan
William Shakespeare
24. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
With what you have -
Thomas Paine
Like art...
Carl Sagan
25. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
I saw -
So - first of all -
26. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Isaac Asimov
Niels Bohr
Aristotle
Yogi Berra
27. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
Thomas Edison
Victor Hugo
Steve Wozniak
Yogi Berra
28. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Andy Warhol
Abraham Lincoln
Isaac Asimov
Plato
29. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Thomas Watson
An unexamined life
30. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
A new nation -
Winston Churchill
Winning is a habit.
Ernest Hemingway
31. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Keep going.
Dave Barry
Thomas Jefferson
Meet any hardship -
32. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.
The prepared mind.
Aristotle
Glory is fleeting -
Thomas Edison
33. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
34. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
T. S. Eliot
Alexander Pope
An eye for an eye
Steve Wozniak
35. I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Alexander Pope
An intolerable one.
36. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
Let us - to the end -
John F. Kennedy
The chief business
Like philosophy -
37. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.
To utter
Lewis Carroll
Is to invent it.
Thomas Paine
38. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Women and cats
Will Rogers
To invent -
Winston Churchill
39. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Maybe this world
John F. Kennedy
40. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
George Orwell
Mark Twain
It aint over
Leonardo da Vinci
41. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
John F. Kennedy
It goes on.
42. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
Richard P. Feynman
To err is human;
43. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
C.A.R. Hoare
William Shakespeare
I'm a Democrat!
C. S. Lewis
44. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Calvin Coolidge
Makes more converts
Muhammad Ali
Socrates
45. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.
Laozi
Bill Gates
Blaise Pascal
Socrates
46. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
This above all
Paul Harvey
Lewis Carroll
Meet any hardship -
47. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____
And you say Why?
Or get busy dying.
Dave Barry
Aristotle
48. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Bertrand Russell
And the Universe
Vidi -
Plato
49. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
John Wooden
Aristotle
Vince Lombardi
50. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h
Winston Churchill
C. S. Lewis
Victor Hugo
Charles Darwin
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