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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The chief business
2. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____
Vici
Aristotle
Or Not guilty.
Edith Wharton
3. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Is never accurate
Mark Twain
Samuel Johnson
Be kind -
4. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Winston Churchill
Vidi -
Robert Frost
Mahatma Gandhi
5. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Socrates
Mother Teresa
Michael Jordan
C. S. Lewis
6. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
John Wooden
Success is going
Except temptation.
Rene Descartes
7. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Yogi Berra
Wit
Mark Twain
Read only a page.
8. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Walt Disney
Vince Lombardi
Mae West
Woody Allen
9. 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.
Socrates
Mother Teresa
Isaac Asimov
And the Universe
10. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Woody Allen
God is a comedian
It just gives.
George Santayana
11. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert Frost
Voltaire
C. S. Lewis
12. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Friend to one;
Isaac Asimov
Woody Allen
13. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Patrick Henry
Silence is golden
Trust a few -
Margaret Thatcher
14. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
John Lennon
And a pile of junk.
Therefore I am.
Muhammad Ali
15. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
H. G. Wells
Rita Mae Brown
Albert Einstein
16. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Socrates
Dave Barry
William Shakespeare
17. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
I saw -
Voltaire
Carl Sagan
18. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Oscar Wilde
Douglas Adams
Niels Bohr
Jesse Jackson
19. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
He is richest
Aristotle
20. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Winston Churchill
But wisdom listens.
Always do right--
Henry David Thoreau
21. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers
I'm a Democrat!
Calvin Coolidge
Thomas Jefferson
22. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Muhammad Ali
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
23. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Woody Allen
Naked people have
Socrates
24. Dwight Eisenhower said: Every gun that is made - every warship launched - _____ signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Alexander Pope
Robert Frost
Will Rogers
Every rocket fired -
25. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
In an hour of play
Mark Twain
George Washington
George Orwell
26. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Samuel Adams
Augustine
Socrates
Joseph Stalin
27. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
Must - like men -
Read only a page.
28. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Vince Lombardi
Women and cats
Mark Twain
Where the spirit
29. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Albert Einstein
John Wayne
Keep going.
Theodore Roosevelt
30. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Proves nothing.
A single soul
Henry David Thoreau
Theodore Roosevelt
31. 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.
Plato
Mae West
William Blake
Benjamin Franklin
32. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Play on.
God is a comedian
Aldous Huxley
Abraham Lincoln
33. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
George Bernard Shaw
Meet any hardship -
Mark Twain
34. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Albert Einstein
Phyllis Diller
Louis Pasteur
Enemy to none.
35. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
George Bernard Shaw
And in that faith -
A witty saying
HenryFord
36. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
With the very best.
Rightly considered.
Plato
John Wooden
37. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To invent -
Samuel Johnson
Robert Frost
There are painters
38. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
A single soul
Victor Hugo
Mario Andretti
Dwight Eisenhower
39. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
An eye for an eye
Winston Churchill
Dave Barry
But blood - toil -
40. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Margaret Mead
I have not failed.
Oscar Wilde
Is to be one.
41. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Ah! the farce.
Charles Darwin
Gobble their food -
Niels Bohr
42. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Plato
It goes on.
Where the spirit
Stephen King
43. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I conquered.)
Christopher Morley
George Orwell
But time will not.
44. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
Joseph Stalin
John Wooden
Must - like men -
45. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Thomas Watson
John F. Kennedy
Socrates
Terry Pratchett
46. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
Veni -
Sting like a bee.
But it does rhyme.
Time
47. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Walt Disney
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
48. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Socrates
Pablo Picasso
49. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.
Isaac Newton
Woody Allen
Aristotle
In an hour of play
50. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Mae West
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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