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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






2. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






3. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






4. There are no facts - only interpretations.






5. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






6. 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. Thats relativity.






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






8. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






9. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






10. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






11. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






12. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






13. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






14. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






15. 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.






16. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






17. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






18. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






19. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






20. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






21. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






22. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






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






24. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






25. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






26. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






27. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






28. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






29. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






30. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






31. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






32. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






33. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






34. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






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






36. 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






37. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






38. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






39. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






40. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






41. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.






42. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






43. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






44. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






45. If music be the food of love - play on.






46. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






47. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






48. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






49. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






50. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.







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