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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
John Wooden
George Bernard Shaw
Terry Pratchett
Pablo Picasso
2. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Friedrich Nietzsche
What! You too?
George Bernard Shaw
Saki
3. 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.
All great truths
George Orwell
This above all
Mark Twain
4. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
Woody Allen
Plato
Trust a few -
An unexamined life
5. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.
Mark Twain
Steven Wright
A witty saying
Than well said.
6. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
John F. Kennedy
Calvin Coolidge
Vidi -
Mark Twain
7. 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.
Woody Allen
Mark Twain
Knowledge speaks -
Winston Churchill
8. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Calvin Coolidge
And a pile of junk.
Mother Teresa
9. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Theodore Roosevelt
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Samuel Adams
10. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Carlin
Speak softly
When people die
Mother Teresa
11. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
When people laugh.
Abraham Lincoln
Plato
Groucho Marx
12. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.
A witty saying
Friedrich Nietzsche
William Shakespeare
I hate quotations.
13. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
Aldous Huxley
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
John Lennon
14. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
W. Somerset Maugham
Thomas Paine
15. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
(I came -
Dorothy Parker
George Carlin
Charles Darwin
16. 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.
You may delay -
George Santayana
Albert Einstein
Peter Drucker
17. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
After silence -
I'm a Democrat!
Oscar Wilde
Eleanor Roosevelt
18. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
Speak softly
Benjamin Franklin
George Orwell
Like fire -
19. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Ah! the farce.
Carl Sagan
Than reason.
What is now proved
20. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
George Washington
William Shakespeare
Isaac Newton
Ronald Reagan
21. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Theodore Roosevelt
Bill Gates
Douglas Adams
Benjamin Franklin
22. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.
Love all -
But blood - toil -
Mark Twain
Wernher Von Braun
23. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Blaise Pascal
John Milton
Oscar Wilde
Pablo Picasso
24. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
Pablo Picasso
Oscar Wilde
25. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.
Steve Wozniak
Oscar Wilde
All great truths
Wit
26. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Mahatma Gandhi
It was here first.
William Shakespeare
Thomas Edison
27. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Be more concerned
With what you have -
God is a comedian
Winston Churchill
28. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Samuel Adams
Thomas Edison
Patrick Henry
Eleanor Roosevelt
29. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Mahatma Gandhi
Oscar Levant
Lewis Carroll
30. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Jonathan Swift
Socrates
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Lennon
31. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Albert Einstein
Woody Allen
John Wayne
Oscar Wilde
32. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Speak softly
Meet any hardship -
Plato
Peace at any price -
33. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Wernher Von Braun
Woody Allen
Winston Churchill
C. S. Lewis
34. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Walt Disney
Socrates
Present
Plato
35. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Mother Teresa
To find yourself -
Will Rogers
Patrick Henry
36. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
All great truths
Aldous Huxley
Dwight Eisenhower
Is busy dying.
37. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Benjamin Franklin
Be kind -
Richard P. Feynman
Mae West
38. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
Must - like men -
Wernher Von Braun
Naked people have
Jonathan Swift
39. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.
And a pile of junk.
Vince Lombardi
Till its over.
Benjamin Franklin
40. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Sting like a bee.
Robert Frost
And the Macintosh -
There are painters
41. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.
Present
In an hour of play
Friend to one;
Than well said.
42. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Knowledge speaks -
Benjamin Franklin
Time
Socrates
43. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____
Walt Disney
It tolls for thee.
Margaret Thatcher
Alexander Pope
44. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Socrates
Victor Hugo
Dwight Eisenhower
Mark Twain
45. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
Vince Lombardi
Where you are.
I'm a Democrat!
With a smile.
46. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
47. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Walt Disney
Isaac Asimov
John Milton
C.A.R. Hoare
48. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
To know everything.
The first principle
Naked people have
Rita Mae Brown
49. 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.
Saul Bellow
Mark Twain
Walt Disney
Aldous Huxley
50. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Augustine
Till its over.
Mark Twain
Tears and sweat.
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