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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Galileo Galilei
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
William Shakespeare
2. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Is to invent it.
Voltaire
Mark Twain
Without music -
3. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
4. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Richard P. Feynman
Rightly considered.
H. G. Wells
Mark Twain
5. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
I conquered.)
John Milton
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
6. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Mark Twain
In fact they do so.
Woody Allen
Friedrich Nietzsche
7. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Vidi -
But wisdom listens.
Adam Smith
Thomas Edison
8. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan
With what you have -
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
9. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Mark Twain
Dwight Eisenhower
Makes more converts
Abraham Lincoln
10. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Its inherent virtue
Aldous Huxley
Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams
11. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.
Thomas Jefferson
Bob Dylan
Charles Darwin
Well done is better
12. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.
Muhammad Ali
A witty saying
Henry David Thoreau
Is a waking dream.
13. A witty saying proves nothing.
Religion
Richard P. Feynman
Voltaire
Margaret Thatcher
14. Eighty percent of success is showing up.
John Wayne
What! You too?
Woody Allen
With a smile.
15. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Mother Teresa
Steven Wright
Mark Twain
16. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Where the spirit
Or Not guilty.
Winston Churchill
And in that faith -
17. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
There are painters
Plato
But it does rhyme.
18. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Wilson Mizner
He is richest
Is showing up.
Simplicity
19. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
When people laugh.
John Lennon
Benjamin Franklin
Friend to one;
20. 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.
Vince Lombardi
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
21. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Mother Teresa
Robert Frost
Thomas Jefferson
Keep going.
22. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
A single soul
Naked people have
Rich Cook
And I sayWhy not?
23. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Thomas Paine
Decca Recording Co.
Bertrand Russell
Margaret Thatcher
24. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
George Orwell
Augustine
And the pessimist
Mark Twain
25. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Decca Recording Co.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace begins
26. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Thomas Paine
Galileo Galilei
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Paine
27. Do - or do not. There is no try.
Theodore Roosevelt
Plato
Walt Disney
Yoda
28. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Present
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
It swears.
29. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
It is hard to fail -
Socrates
30. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Albert Einstein
What is now proved
Will Rogers
Winston Churchill
31. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Every rocket fired -
Thomas Paine
God is a comedian
Andy Warhol
32. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Phyllis Diller
George Washington
Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde
33. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Like philosophy -
Benjamin Franklin
Friend to one;
Sun Tzu
34. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
You may delay -
Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan
The chief business
35. 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.
Thomas Edison
Steven Wright
Tears and sweat.
Socrates
36. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
Jonathan Swift
H. M. Warner
George Carlin
Isaac Newton
37. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
Think for yourself.
Stephen King
Winston Churchill
Samuel Johnson
38. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____
In fact they do so.
James Branch Cabell
To be the candle
But it does rhyme.
39. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Wit
As they are seized.
Friend to one;
Woody Allen
40. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
Carl Sagan
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
Julius Caesar
41. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
Carl Sagan
I conquered.)
Is business.
W. Somerset Maugham
42. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
Yogi Berra
But blood - toil -
Linus Torvalds
Do what you can -
43. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Fears this is true.
Fears this is true.
Marcel Proust
Samuel Johnson
44. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
45. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
As they are seized.
Patrick Henry
Ronald Reagan
Socrates
46. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
After silence -
Mark Twain
It just gives.
And I sayWhy not?
47. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell
Woody Allen
Proves nothing.
Mark Twain
48. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
C. S. Lewis
Must - like men -
T. S. Eliot
Albert Einstein
49. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Religion
Is to be one.
George S. Patton
Is never accurate
50. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Plato
To err is human;
Calvin Coolidge
Yogi Berra