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Famous Quotes Trivia
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1. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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2. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Or get busy dying.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
And you say Why?
3. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
Albert Einstein
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
With the very best.
4. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Samuel Adams
Augustine
Robert Heinlein
Albert Einstein
5. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Phyllis Diller
W. Somerset Maugham
Plato
Benjamin Franklin
6. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Mark Twain
Play on.
Trust a few -
Winston Churchill
7. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
Benjamin Franklin
And the Macintosh -
Isaac Asimov
It goes on.
8. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
W. Somerset Maugham
Lewis Carroll
Edith Wharton
Margaret Mead
9. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Thomas Paine
With the very best.
Christopher Morley
Leonardo da Vinci
10. 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.
Socrates
Like art...
Aldous Huxley
Rich Cook
11. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
William Shakespeare
And you say Why?
Douglas Adams
When people die
12. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Sun Tzu
Mother Teresa
Ernest Hemingway
Socrates
13. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
14. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
Woody Allen
It aint over
Oscar Wilde
George Orwell
15. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Ronald Reagan
Aldous Huxley
16. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
There is no art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
17. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner
Robert Frost
Henry David Thoreau
I conquered.)
18. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
And the pessimist
Mel Brooks
Winston Churchill
Carl Sagan
19. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
Alexander Pope
William James
20. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.
Samuel Adams
Niels Bohr
Simplicity
What is now proved
21. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
Plato
Oscar Wilde
W. Somerset Maugham
And I sayWhy not?
22. 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.
And the Universe
Thomas Paine
Tom Clancy
Henry David Thoreau
23. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Isaac Newton
Epictetus
It aint over
24. 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.
Francis Bacon
Joseph Stalin
Mark Twain
Socrates
25. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Life is pleasant.
Mark Twain
Familiar with few;
Is to be one.
26. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Kurt Vonnegut
Charles Darwin
Sam Brown
Knowledge speaks -
27. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Do - or do not.
Eleanor Roosevelt
28. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
John F. Kennedy
Mother Teresa
Thomas Edison
Theodore Roosevelt
29. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Rudyard Kipling
Albert Einstein
Samuel Adams
Is to be one.
30. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de
Talent will not;
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Paine
Eleanor Roosevelt
31. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____
Benjamin Franklin
Till its over.
Ronald Reagan
Peter Drucker
32. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____
What is now proved
Tears and sweat.
Henry David Thoreau
H. G. Wells
33. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
George Orwell
G. K. Chesterton
Think for yourself.
Mother Teresa
34. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Present
Plato
Gobble their food -
But wisdom listens.
35. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
William Shakespeare
All great truths
Terry Pratchett
George Bernard Shaw
36. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
Is to be one.
Voltaire
Napoleon Bonaparte
Linus Torvalds
37. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
W. Somerset Maugham
Or Not guilty.
38. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Is never accurate
Robert Frost
Winston Churchill
Victor Hugo
39. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Decca Recording Co.
Get busy living -
Socrates
Religion
40. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Kurt Vonnegut
Veni -
Mark Twain
Joseph Stalin
41. Hope is a waking dream.
HenryFord
Aristotle
Richard Nixon
George Bernard Shaw
42. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____
Time
Thats relativity.
Mark Twain
Take it.
43. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
Leonardo da Vinci
Therefore I am.
44. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Edison
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
45. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
Is to be one.
Plato
Wernher Von Braun
With a smile.
46. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.
When people laugh.
Is busy dying.
George Carlin
Albert Einstein
47. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Than reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Bertrand Russell
Kahlil Gibran
48. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Robert Oppenheimer
Mother Teresa
49. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
C.A.R. Hoare
Take it.
Speak softly
Robert Kennedy
50. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
George Santayana
Jonathan Swift
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking
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