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Famous Quotes Trivia

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






3. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






4. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






5. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






6. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






7. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






8. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






9. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






10. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






11. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






12. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






13. 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.






14. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






15. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






16. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






17. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






18. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






19. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






20. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






21. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






22. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






23. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






24. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






25. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____






26. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






27. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






28. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






29. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






30. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






31. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






32. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






33. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






34. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






35. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






36. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






37. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






38. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






39. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






40. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






41. He not busy being born is busy dying.






42. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.






43. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






44. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






45. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






46. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






47. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






48. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






49. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






50. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.