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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






2. 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.






3. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






4. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






5. You may delay - but time will not.






6. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






7. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






8. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






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






10. 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; _____






11. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






12. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






13. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






14. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






15. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






16. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






17. 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






18. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






19. 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.






20. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






21. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






22. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






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






24. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






25. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






26. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






27. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






28. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






29. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






30. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






31. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






32. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






33. I can resist everything except temptation.






34. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






35. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






36. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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37. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






41. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






42. An unexamined life is not worth living.






43. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






44. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






45. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






46. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






47. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






48. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






49. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






50. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.