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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Mark Twain
It is hard to fail -
Plato
Margaret Mead
2. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Muhammad Ali
Kurt Vonnegut
Knowledge speaks -
Dave Barry
3. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
Play on.
Peter Drucker
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
4. Dwight Eisenhower said: Every gun that is made - every warship launched - _____ signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Christopher Morley
Carl Sagan
Every rocket fired -
5. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
6. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.
Decca Recording Co.
Richard Nixon
Saul Bellow
Plato
7. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
Tom Clancy
W. Somerset Maugham
Blaise Pascal
Thomas Edison
8. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
George Carlin
Friend to one;
9. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
Entire of itself;
Bertrand Russell
I saw -
Mark Twain
10. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.
Theodore Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
11. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.
Time
Bertrand Russell
John Donne
Is another matter.
12. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
It swears.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
13. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Thomas Edison
Is fear itself
Mark Twain
An intolerable one.
14. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Linus Torvalds
John F. Kennedy
15. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Its inherent virtue
Without music -
With a smile.
Aldous Huxley
16. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Napoleon Bonaparte
Groucho Marx
17. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Leonardo da Vinci
Theodore Roosevelt
William James
Robert Kennedy
18. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Sting like a bee.
Francis Bacon
Is never accurate
Wit
19. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Think for yourself.
C.A.R. Hoare
Tis dearness only
Robert Oppenheimer
20. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
John Lennon
Is to be one.
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Jefferson
21. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Is Music
Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
22. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
I have not failed.
Bertrand Russell
Edith Wharton
Woody Allen
23. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Margaret Thatcher
G. K. Chesterton
John Wayne
Thomas Jefferson
24. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.
Richard P. Feynman
Oscar Wilde
Scott Adams
All great truths
25. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
With the very best.
Andy Warhol
Talent will not;
Ronald Reagan
26. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Aldous Huxley
Sam Brown
Stephen King
Plato
27. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
Peace at any price -
Is a waking dream.
Sun Tzu
Hope
28. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
To utter
The first principle
Mark Twain
Socrates
29. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Mother Teresa
Therefore I am.
Its kind of fun
Vince Lombardi
30. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
When people die
Socrates
Women and cats
Alan Kay
31. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Thomas Edison
Time
Its too crowded.
Terry Pratchett
32. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Edison
Mae West
Charles Darwin
33. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Meet any hardship -
Benjamin Franklin
Napoleon Bonaparte
George Washington
34. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
I have not failed.
Walt Disney
In wonder.
Eleanor Roosevelt
35. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Muhammad Ali
George Carlin
Victor Hugo
Plato
36. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Aquinas
Socrates
37. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Mother Teresa
Laozi
There is no try.
Benjamin Franklin
38. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Socrates
Samuel Adams
Yogi Berra
Victor Hugo
39. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
John Donne
Is another matter.
40. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Scott Adams
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
Henry David Thoreau
41. Aristotle said: Hope _____
Every rocket fired -
Benjamin Franklin
Is a waking dream.
Thomas Paine
42. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.
John Wooden
Abraham Lincoln
To err is human;
Lewis Carroll
43. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
To invent -
Winston Churchill
Cleaning your house
Socrates
44. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Is not Eureka!
Aristotle
Bertrand Russell
Entire of itself;
45. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.
Mark Twain
Richard Nixon
Money doesnt talk -
Mae West
46. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Socrates
It aint over
Yoda
Winston Churchill
47. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
Thomas Edison
An eye for an eye
Oscar Wilde
Patrick Henry
48. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.
Fears this is true.
Benjamin Franklin
In the gym -
Steven Wright
49. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
The chief business
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Socrates
50. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
Mark Twain
And the Universe
There are no facts -
Victor Hugo