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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____
Is busy dying.
He is richest
A new nation -
Read only a page.
2. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
I - at any rate -
Bertrand Russell
Winston Churchill
Woody Allen
3. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
A single soul
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
4. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
C.A.R. Hoare
Oscar Wilde
Saki
Abraham Lincoln
5. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____
The prepared mind.
George Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Mark Twain
6. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____
Who the hell wants
It was here first.
Who the hell wants
Makes more converts
7. The chief business of the American people is business.
Robert Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Calvin Coolidge
Is a waking dream.
8. 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.
Mark Twain
Tom Clancy
Is never accurate
Pablo Picasso
9. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Andy Warhol
Sting like a bee.
Bertrand Russell
William James
10. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Walt Disney
Vince Lombardi
Victor Hugo
As they are seized.
11. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Kahlil Gibran
Speak softly
But it does rhyme.
The chief business
12. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Alexander Pope
Trust a few -
Familiar with few;
Oscar Wilde
13. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
You may delay -
Scott Adams
Mae West
John F. Kennedy
14. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
A witty saying
Vidi -
Charles Darwin
Douglas Adams
15. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Watson
Victor Hugo
16. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Vince Lombardi
Familiar with few;
The prepared mind.
It was here first.
17. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Is business.
Ronald Reagan
There is no art.
With what you have -
18. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
Mark Twain
Paul Harvey
Do what you can -
George Santayana
19. 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.
Muhammad Ali
Be more concerned
Peter Drucker
George Orwell
20. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
Is fear itself
Abraham Lincoln
21. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.
God is a comedian
Plato
Silence is golden
Phyllis Diller
22. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Louis Pasteur
Peace begins
Sting like a bee.
Ronald Reagan
23. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yogi Berra
Thomas Watson
But wisdom listens.
24. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.
In its worst state -
It is force!
Oscar Wilde
H. M. Warner
25. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Alexander Pope
Veni -
Galileo Galilei
26. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
Mark Twain
Louis Pasteur
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
27. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!
HenryFord
C. S. Lewis
Theodore Roosevelt
Plato
28. If music be the food of love - play on.
Pablo Picasso
William Shakespeare
Except temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
29. 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.
Dave Barry
Niels Bohr
Douglas Adams
Alexander Pope
30. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
Christopher Morley
Henry David Thoreau
George Bernard Shaw
31. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Than reason.
Richard P. Feynman
Plato
Death is peaceful.
32. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Mark Twain
Must - like men -
Vince Lombardi
George Carlin
33. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Robert Frost
But wisdom listens.
Saki
Dave Barry
34. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.
Do - or do not.
Glory is fleeting -
Winston Churchill
C. S. Lewis
35. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.
Isaac Asimov
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
I saw -
36. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
To utter
Charles Darwin
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Jefferson
37. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
In the gym -
Bertrand Russell
Jimi Hendrix
God is a comedian
38. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
The chief business
Niels Bohr
39. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Richard P. Feynman
Thomas Paine
Maybe this world
Thomas Edison
40. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.
Except temptation.
Rudyard Kipling
When people laugh.
Will Rogers
41. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
Mother Teresa
Ronald Reagan
Familiar with few;
42. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.
Tis dearness only
Mark Twain
Joseph Stalin
Knowledge speaks -
43. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Asimov
G. K. Chesterton
Isaac Newton
44. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Like art...
In the gym -
When people die
Mark Twain
45. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Glory is fleeting -
Woody Allen
C. S. Lewis
Eleanor Roosevelt
46. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Steven Wright
Muhammad Ali
Present
Mark Twain
47. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Where you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Roosevelt
John Wooden
48. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Money doesnt talk -
Christopher Morley
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
49. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
Kahlil Gibran
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Its kind of fun
50. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Hope
Peter Drucker
Winston Churchill
Money doesnt talk -