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Famous Quotes Trivia
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1. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Jefferson
Must - like men -
Mother Teresa
Victor Hugo
2. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Plato
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
T. S. Eliot
3. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
To utter
Victor Hugo
Always do right--
As they are seized.
4. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____
In fact they do so.
Women and cats
Winston Churchill
Is fear itself
5. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Thomas Jefferson
John F. Kennedy
There is no try.
In wonder.
6. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great
Mark Twain
Isaac Newton
Linus Torvalds
Meet any hardship -
7. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Alexander Pope
Emily Dickinson
Oscar Levant
Mark Twain
8. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
I - at any rate -
George Washington
Charles Darwin
Thomas Paine
9. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Behind the lines -
Stephen King
HenryFord
Winston Churchill
10. 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.
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
George Washington
Till its over.
11. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
C.A.R. Hoare
Simplicity
12. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Blaise Pascal
John F. Kennedy
Mother Teresa
13. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Oscar Wilde
You see things;
Thomas Paine
C. S. Lewis
14. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Carl Sagan
Jonathan Swift
He is richest
Mark Twain
15. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Samuel Adams
Abraham Lincoln
George Orwell
When people die
16. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
Oscar Wilde
To be the candle
John F. Kennedy
William Shakespeare
17. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that
Speak softly
And the Macintosh -
John Donne
Than well said.
18. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Socrates
To invent -
Isaac Newton
Like fire -
19. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bob Dylan
C. S. Lewis
Mark Twain
20. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
There is no art.
But time will not.
Tis dearness only
Vince Lombardi
21. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Is never accurate
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
22. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
In an hour of play
Knowledge speaks -
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
23. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.
Rich Cook
Friend to one;
George Bernard Shaw
Can be wonderful.
24. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Albert Einstein
Where the spirit
Alan Kay
Tis dearness only
25. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Is showing up.
Jesse Jackson
G. K. Chesterton
Plato
26. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Mark Twain
Money doesnt talk -
John Dalberg-Acton
Winston Churchill
27. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Socrates
Is Music
Thomas Jefferson
Victor Hugo
28. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Vici
29. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Be more concerned
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
30. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____
Religion
Than well said.
C.A.R. Hoare
Rudyard Kipling
31. 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
In the gym -
Mark Twain
George Carlin
32. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Edith Wharton
Carl Sagan
H. G. Wells
Mother Teresa
33. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
Victor Hugo
Albert Einstein
34. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Oscar Wilde
Wernher Von Braun
Robert Frost
Thomas Edison
35. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Saint Augustine
Do - or do not.
Mark Twain
In wonder.
36. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Money doesnt talk -
George Bernard Shaw
Benjamin Franklin
37. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
True friends
Except temptation.
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
38. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Aristotle
Chance favors
39. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Leonardo da Vinci
Keep going.
Terry Pratchett
Thomas Jefferson
40. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
Emily Dickinson
C.A.R. Hoare
Paul Harvey
Success is going
41. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Every rocket fired -
Vince Lombardi
Niels Bohr
Is fear itself
42. The chief business of the American people is business.
Aristotle
Calvin Coolidge
I have not failed.
Niels Bohr
43. 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.
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
Its too crowded.
Mark Twain
44. 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.
Abraham Lincoln
Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Einstein
In wonder.
45. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
Therefore I am.
Voltaire
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
46. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____
C. S. Lewis
But time will not.
Sun Tzu
Vidi -
47. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Like art...
To know everything.
John Donne
Mark Twain
48. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
George Washington
George S. Patton
Makes more converts
Can be wonderful.
49. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Oscar Wilde
HenryFord
Except temptation.
Thomas Aquinas
50. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?
Isaac Asimov
Mother Teresa
Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare
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