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Famous Quotes Trivia

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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2. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






3. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






4. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






5. 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.






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






7. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






8. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






9. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






10. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






11. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






12. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






13. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






14. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






15. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






16. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






17. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






18. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






19. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






20. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






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






22. 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.






23. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






24. 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.






25. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






26. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






27. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






28. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






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






30. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






31. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






32. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






33. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






34. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






35. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






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






37. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






38. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






39. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






40. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






41. Hope is a waking dream.






42. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____






43. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






44. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






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






46. 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.






47. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






48. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






49. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






50. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.







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