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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Thomas Paine
Keep going.
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
2. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.
Christopher Morley
I - at any rate -
Friedrich Nietzsche
W. Somerset Maugham
3. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
C. S. Lewis
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
4. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Mother Teresa
Samuel Adams
5. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Aristotle
Death is peaceful.
Theodore Roosevelt
Peter Drucker
6. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Pablo Picasso
Must - like men -
Oscar Levant
Therefore I am.
7. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
Rene Descartes
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
8. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____
As they are seized.
Mother Teresa
T. S. Eliot
Samuel Johnson
9. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Winston Churchill
He is richest
Winston Churchill
God is a comedian
10. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Present
George Bernard Shaw
Peace at any price -
Winston Churchill
11. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Winston Churchill
Vince Lombardi
Life is pleasant.
Ronald Reagan
12. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin
Mother Teresa
Benjamin Franklin
Except temptation.
13. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
To be the candle
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victor Hugo
14. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Take it.
George Carlin
John F. Kennedy
George Bernard Shaw
15. 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.
Groucho Marx
But wisdom listens.
Benjamin Franklin
Success is going
16. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Picasso
Aristotle
With the very best.
17. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Sam Brown
Christopher Morley
Voltaire
Alan Kay
18. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
George Washington
Woody Allen
Wernher Von Braun
19. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Washington
Albert Einstein
When people die
Isaac Asimov
20. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
H. G. Wells
Mark Twain
21. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Thomas Edison
Yogi Berra
Eleanor Roosevelt
Isaac Asimov
22. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.
Benjamin Franklin
Glory is fleeting -
Thomas Paine
Ah! the farce.
23. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
G. K. Chesterton
Dave Barry
Ronald Reagan
Than well said.
24. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Glory is fleeting -
Robert Frost
John Dalberg-Acton
Benjamin Franklin
25. Without music - life would be a mistake.
An eye for an eye
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain
And I sayWhy not?
26. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Walt Disney
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
27. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Linus Torvalds
All great truths
Mark Twain
Proves nothing.
28. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight Eisenhower
It just gives.
Glory is fleeting -
The prepared mind.
29. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
G. K. Chesterton
Dave Barry
Present
Theodore Roosevelt
30. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Trust a few -
Take it.
Socrates
Makes more converts
31. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Than he finds.
Thomas Edison
But wisdom listens.
Theodore Roosevelt
32. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Let us - to the end -
George Eliot
William Shakespeare
Theodore Roosevelt
33. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Carl Sagan
Walt Disney
George Bernard Shaw
Steve Wozniak
34. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
To utter
Richard P. Feynman
George Bernard Shaw
Benjamin Franklin
35. Aristotle said: Hope _____
Decca Recording Co.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Is a waking dream.
36. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Ah! the farce.
Like art...
And a pile of junk.
37. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____
Dwight Eisenhower
Plato
Till its over.
When people laugh.
38. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Cleaning your house
Mark Twain
39. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
The first principle
Socrates
And I sayWhy not?
Carl Sagan
40. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
Socrates
Albert Einstein
Therefore I am.
Mario Andretti
41. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Ronald Reagan
William Shakespeare
Scott Adams
(I came -
42. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Plato
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Jefferson
In fact they do so.
43. 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.
To invent -
Enemy to none.
With what you have -
Bertrand Russell
44. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Darwin
Maybe this world
Friend to one;
45. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Bill Gates
Phyllis Diller
Yogi Berra
To find yourself -
46. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Plato
Henry David Thoreau
Mae West
Its too crowded.
47. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Alexander Pope
Eleanor Roosevelt
48. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
William Shakespeare
Is never accurate
An eye for an eye
Life is pleasant.
49. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Adam Smith
With what you have -
Bob Dylan
Time
50. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
Pablo Picasso
Paul Harvey
Like fire -