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Famous Quotes Trivia

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






2. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






3. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






4. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






5. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






6. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






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






8. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






9. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






10. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






11. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






12. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






13. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






14. Hope is a waking dream.






15. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






16. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






17. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






18. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






19. 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






20. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






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






22. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






23. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






24. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






25. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






26. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






27. ____ 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






28. 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.






29. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






33. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






34. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






35. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






36. 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.






37. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






38. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






39. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






40. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






41. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






42. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






43. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






44. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






45. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






46. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






47. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






48. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






49. ____ 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






50. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.







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