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Famous Quotes Trivia
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trivia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Is not Eureka!
Oscar Wilde
Time
Patrick Henry
2. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Winston Churchill
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
3. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Chance favors
A new nation -
Mother Teresa
What! You too?
4. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Thomas Paine
Charles Darwin
Andy Warhol
Mark Twain
5. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Ronald Reagan
Time
Margaret Thatcher
Samuel Adams
6. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
William Shakespeare
Michael Jordan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Than he finds.
7. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Present
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Like fire -
8. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Therefore I am.
Andy Warhol
William Shakespeare
Socrates
9. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Epictetus
And a pile of junk.
Socrates
Leonardo da Vinci
10. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Vince Lombardi
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
Oscar Wilde
11. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
To find yourself -
Pablo Picasso
To utter
Peter Drucker
12. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Than well said.
Carl Sagan
Pablo Picasso
Is busy dying.
13. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Than well said.
Fears this is true.
Carl Sagan
Mark Twain
14. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
But time will not.
Take it.
C. S. Lewis
HenryFord
15. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Than well said.
Is to be one.
Peace begins
John Dalberg-Acton
16. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
To err is human;
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Leonardo da Vinci
17. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Winston Churchill
What! You too?
Patrick Henry
John F. Kennedy
18. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Or get busy dying.
Mother Teresa
To invent -
What is now proved
19. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Well done is better
Jesse Jackson
Let us - to the end -
With a smile.
20. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Rightly considered.
George Orwell
Pablo Picasso
Napoleon Bonaparte
21. 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.
Play on.
Woody Allen
Proves nothing.
Oscar Wilde
22. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.
Makes more converts
Behind the lines -
Thomas Jefferson
Henry David Thoreau
23. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Paine
Must - like men -
I'm a Democrat!
24. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
Where the spirit
Trust a few -
Margaret Mead
Linus Torvalds
25. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
The first principle
Oscar Wilde
It is force!
Peace begins
26. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.
Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche
27. 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
Mahatma Gandhi
I - at any rate -
Oscar Wilde
Robert Frost
28. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
George Carlin
Edith Wharton
Thomas Edison
29. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Adams
Do wrong to none.
Oscar Wilde
30. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Let us - to the end -
Socrates
Douglas Adams
Aristotle
31. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight Eisenhower
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ronald Reagan
William Blake
32. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Albert Einstein
Like fire -
Isaac Asimov
Woody Allen
33. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Galileo Galilei
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
34. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.
Take it.
Glory is fleeting -
Woody Allen
Richard P. Feynman
35. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Jonathan Swift
Voltaire
Bob Dylan
Eleanor Roosevelt
36. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt
John Lennon
Ronald Reagan
Fools rush in
37. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
George Bernard Shaw
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leonardo da Vinci
Albert Einstein
38. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Albert Einstein
In its worst state -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aldous Huxley
39. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
And I sayWhy not?
Dave Barry
Think for yourself.
Mae West
40. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Pablo Picasso
Is to invent it.
Mark Twain
What is now proved
41. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
William Blake
Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Twain
But time will not.
42. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
Laozi
Pablo Picasso
Albert Einstein
Gobble their food -
43. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Saint Augustine
Jimi Hendrix
Winston Churchill
I saw -
44. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Mother Teresa
Sting like a bee.
Epictetus
Mark Twain
45. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
But wisdom listens.
Theodore Roosevelt
Friedrich Nietzsche
William Shakespeare
46. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Women and cats
Napoleon Bonaparte
Trust a few -
Rightly considered.
47. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Samuel Adams
Michael Jordan
Alexander Pope
Thomas Paine
48. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Vidi -
49. 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.
After silence -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Frost
And the Universe
50. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Plato
Than well said.
Yogi Berra
Abraham Lincoln
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