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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.
Sam Brown
Socrates
Silence is golden
Mark Twain
2. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Jonathan Swift
Pablo Picasso
Oscar Wilde
3. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Mother Teresa
Woody Allen
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
4. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
George Carlin
John Wooden
Mark Twain
Trust a few -
5. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
Well done is better
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yogi Berra
6. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Than well said.
Isaac Newton
7. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
Mark Twain
Is business.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Twain
8. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
John Milton
William James
George Santayana
Paul Harvey
9. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Henry David Thoreau
The first principle
Religion
Woody Allen
10. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
C. S. Lewis
Entire of itself;
Like art...
I conquered.)
11. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
Winston Churchill
Aristotle
Yogi Berra
12. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Aristotle
Eleanor Roosevelt
I conquered.)
Steven Wright
13. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.
Well done is better
Augustine
John F. Kennedy
William Shakespeare
14. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Isaac Newton
Winston Churchill
Michael Jordan
And the pessimist
15. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
16. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Pablo Picasso
Margaret Thatcher
The first principle
Laozi
17. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Is never accurate
H. M. Warner
Daniel Webster
18. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
But wisdom listens.
Abraham Lincoln
19. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
Do - or do not.
And the Macintosh -
John Lennon
Get busy living -
20. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____
John Wooden
Yogi Berra
Napoleon Bonaparte
It tolls for thee.
21. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
Like fire -
Socrates
Kahlil Gibran
The chief business
22. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
It tolls for thee.
C. S. Lewis
John Wayne
23. The chief business of the American people is business.
Mark Twain
Rudyard Kipling
Calvin Coolidge
Its too crowded.
24. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
There is no try.
Jimi Hendrix
25. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Like art...
Alexander Pope
T. S. Eliot
Robert Oppenheimer
26. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
Muhammad Ali
It just gives.
Winston Churchill
27. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Patrick Henry
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
Henry David Thoreau
28. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Winning is a habit.
Woody Allen
C. S. Lewis
William Shakespeare
29. 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.
All over again.
George Eliot
Abraham Lincoln
George Bernard Shaw
30. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Plato
Woody Allen
31. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
Thomas Jefferson
(I came -
Plato
32. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Plato
Benjamin Franklin
A witty saying
Always do right--
33. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Friend to one;
Maybe this world
Cleaning your house
Albert Einstein
34. 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.
Meet any hardship -
In an hour of play
Mark Twain
It swears.
35. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
Pablo Picasso
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
To find yourself -
36. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
Henry David Thoreau
Thats relativity.
Thomas Jefferson
There are painters
37. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Bill Gates
Linus Torvalds
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
38. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Niels Bohr
George Washington
39. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
Carl Sagan
Winston Churchill
John F. Kennedy
And I sayWhy not?
40. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye
William Shakespeare
Thomas Edison
Oscar Wilde
41. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Proves nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
So - first of all -
42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Thomas Edison
So - first of all -
Oscar Levant
You see things;
43. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Pablo Picasso
Laozi
Fools rush in
Oscar Wilde
44. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Carl Sagan
Winston Churchill
I conquered.)
George Eliot
45. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Mark Twain
Think for yourself.
Thomas Edison
Woody Allen
46. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
Samuel Adams
Socrates
Aldous Huxley
Mario Andretti
47. 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.
Stephen King
This above all
Albert Einstein
Dwight Eisenhower
48. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Vici
Louis Pasteur
Let us - to the end -
Winston Churchill
49. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
Linus Torvalds
Kahlil Gibran
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
50. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Kurt Vonnegut
Pablo Picasso
It goes on.
Oscar Wilde