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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Albert Einstein
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
Niels Bohr
2. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.
I have not failed.
Love all -
Mark Twain
Money doesnt talk -
3. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Douglas Adams
Stephen King
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
4. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
In an hour of play
John F. Kennedy
Stephen King
But time will not.
5. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Speak softly
You see things;
Mae West
Thomas Paine
6. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
John Donne
Till its over.
Alan Kay
Mark Twain
7. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Where the spirit
In the gym -
Ansel Adams
Voltaire
8. I can resist everything except temptation.
John Wooden
Wilson Mizner
Cleaning your house
Oscar Wilde
9. 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.
Maybe this world
Ah! the farce.
Richard Nixon
Oscar Wilde
10. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that
And the Macintosh -
Mother Teresa
Benjamin Franklin
Gobble their food -
11. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Must - like men -
George Washington
12. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
Think for yourself.
Oscar Wilde
Plato
Winston Churchill
13. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
When people laugh.
Isaac Asimov
Napoleon Bonaparte
Do what you can -
14. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Bob Dylan
A single soul
Thomas Jefferson
15. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
Its inherent virtue
Therefore I am.
W. Somerset Maugham
Let us - to the end -
16. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
Mother Teresa
Jack Handey
The prepared mind.
17. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
Ronald Reagan
And the pessimist
Yogi Berra
Socrates
18. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Margaret Mead
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Be more concerned
19. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Jonathan Swift
In the gym -
Socrates
When people die
20. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.
Richard P. Feynman
Tears and sweat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Michael Jordan
21. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
Robert Heinlein
Thomas Paine
Isaac Asimov
Yogi Berra
22. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Plato
Albert Einstein
Silence is golden
John Wooden
23. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h
It is hard to fail -
Samuel Johnson
C. S. Lewis
Victor Hugo
24. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Yogi Berra
Is not Eureka!
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
25. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
An intolerable one.
Thomas Jefferson
Jonathan Swift
Robert Frost
26. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Sam Brown
Samuel Adams
George Eliot
Than well said.
27. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____
There is no try.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert Frost
Yogi Berra
28. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
Aristotle
29. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
John Wooden
Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
Socrates
30. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
Mario Andretti
Christopher Morley
31. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Yogi Berra
Thomas Jefferson
In fact they do so.
Mark Twain
32. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Think for yourself.
Woody Allen
Louis Pasteur
Mark Twain
33. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Death is peaceful.
John Dalberg-Acton
John Donne
To invent -
34. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Watson
35. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
John Donne
Present
Charles Darwin
Trust a few -
36. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Friedrich Nietzsche
William Blake
John F. Kennedy
Julius Caesar
37. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Kennedy
Marcel Proust
George Bernard Shaw
38. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Glory is fleeting -
W. Somerset Maugham
Without music -
Woody Allen
39. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Jack Handey
Think for yourself.
Thomas Edison
Vici
40. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Women and cats
Woody Allen
George Orwell
Thomas Paine
41. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
William Blake
Kahlil Gibran
42. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
After silence -
With what you have -
Steven Wright
43. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mother Teresa
And I sayWhy not?
Aristotle
44. 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Leonardo da Vinci
Mother Teresa
45. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Kurt Vonnegut
Is busy dying.
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Picasso
46. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
And a pile of junk.
Mahatma Gandhi
Benjamin Franklin
John Lennon
47. Well done is better than well said.
Paul Harvey
Or get busy dying.
Richard P. Feynman
Benjamin Franklin
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.
Woody Allen
Get busy living -
Thomas Watson
Benjamin Franklin
49. 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.
With a smile.
Epictetus
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
50. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Do what you can -
Is not Eureka!
Decca Recording Co.
Winston Churchill
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