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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Is to invent it.
Vince Lombardi
Theodore Roosevelt
As they are seized.
2. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
True friends
Without music -
Thomas Paine
Eleanor Roosevelt
3. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
It was here first.
Mark Twain
4. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Ansel Adams
Is to be one.
Laozi
Mae West
5. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
George Orwell
Benjamin Franklin
Aldous Huxley
Will Rogers
6. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Can be wonderful.
Dwight Eisenhower
John Wooden
Fears this is true.
7. 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.
And the Universe
Oscar Wilde
James Branch Cabell
Woody Allen
8. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Albert Einstein
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
In an hour of play
9. A witty saying proves nothing.
And men and dogs
Voltaire
Terry Pratchett
Dorothy Parker
10. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Paul Harvey
Dave Barry
Pablo Picasso
11. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
Thomas Jefferson
Eleanor Roosevelt
You may delay -
Ronald Reagan
12. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Wilson Mizner
Death is peaceful.
Robert Frost
An intolerable one.
13. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Or Not guilty.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
14. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
Dave Barry
15. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Till its over.
Mark Twain
Dave Barry
Death is peaceful.
16. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Is to be one.
An eye for an eye
Samuel Johnson
God is a comedian
17. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
Is to be one.
Saul Bellow
Isaac Asimov
Decca Recording Co.
19. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Socrates
William Shakespeare
Love all -
Benjamin Franklin
20. If music be the food of love - play on.
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
21. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Thomas Aquinas
Silence is golden
22. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
Cleaning your house
I conquered.)
23. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Mother Teresa
Aristotle
Mark Twain
Is to be one.
24. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Isaac Asimov
Familiar with few;
Robert Frost
Woody Allen
25. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
Thomas Paine
Victor Hugo
Trust a few -
Dave Barry
26. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
John Wayne
Pablo Picasso
Calvin Coolidge
Is a waking dream.
27. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Is Music
Mark Twain
And you say Why?
Robert Heinlein
28. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aristotle
Mother Teresa
Adam Smith
29. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.
Winston Churchill
William Shakespeare
Thomas Jefferson
Decca Recording Co.
30. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Socrates
Except temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
Yogi Berra
31. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Life is pleasant.
Alexander Pope
John F. Kennedy
Napoleon Bonaparte
32. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
I - at any rate -
George Washington
33. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
Oscar Wilde
Yogi Berra
John Milton
Napoleon Bonaparte
34. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Peace begins
Do what you can -
Niels Bohr
Do - or do not.
35. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
Friend to one;
Time
A new nation -
36. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Can be wonderful.
Thomas Jefferson
Jesse Jackson
Albert Einstein
37. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
It is hard to fail -
There is no try.
38. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
An unexamined life
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
39. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Paul Harvey
Thomas Jefferson
I - at any rate -
40. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Rightly considered.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Woody Allen
Paul Harvey
41. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.
Makes more converts
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
So - first of all -
42. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Victor Hugo
Death is peaceful.
Theodore Roosevelt
43. If music be the food of love - play on.
Where you are.
And you say Why?
William Shakespeare
It is force!
44. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
A witty saying
Aldous Huxley
Leonardo da Vinci
Plato
45. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Can be wonderful.
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
46. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____
Every rocket fired -
Tears and sweat.
John Wooden
Speak softly
47. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Mel Brooks
Aristotle
Oscar Wilde
48. 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.
What! You too?
Albert Einstein
Muhammad Ali
Mark Twain
49. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
God is a comedian
Talent will not;
Hope
What is now proved
50. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.
Theodore Roosevelt
Like fire -
Thomas Jefferson
Dorothy Parker
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