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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Mark Twain
Samuel Johnson
Plato
Charles Darwin
2. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Benjamin Franklin
Well done is better
Jonathan Swift
Mother Teresa
3. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
William Shakespeare
Yogi Berra
There are no facts -
John Donne
4. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Henry David Thoreau
Be kind -
Mark Twain
Alexander Pope
5. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
It was here first.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rudyard Kipling
Winston Churchill
6. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown
Emily Dickinson
It goes on.
Mae West
7. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.
Bertrand Russell
Socrates
Rene Descartes
William Shakespeare
8. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
George Orwell
William Blake
John Milton
Woody Allen
9. I am not young enough to know everything.
Winston Churchill
And the pessimist
Ronald Reagan
Oscar Wilde
10. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
You may delay -
Will Rogers
Ah! the farce.
Do what you can -
11. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
Or Not guilty.
Cleaning your house
John Wooden
The chief business
12. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Ronald Reagan
C. S. Lewis
To invent -
Let us - to the end -
13. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.
Or get busy dying.
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Plato
14. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
It was here first.
A single soul
Therefore I am.
Aldous Huxley
15. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Meet any hardship -
Aristotle
Julius Caesar
Mother Teresa
16. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____
Muhammad Ali
Or Not guilty.
Yogi Berra
Napoleon Bonaparte
17. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
18. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Isaac Asimov
Mark Twain
There is no art.
Is to be one.
19. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Woody Allen
Muhammad Ali
Socrates
Thomas Paine
20. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Julius Caesar
Aristotle
Like art...
Leonardo da Vinci
21. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Than he finds.
Woody Allen
George Bernard Shaw
Rita Mae Brown
22. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Aristotle
George Bernard Shaw
Jesse Jackson
He is richest
23. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
Pablo Picasso
Speak softly
24. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Thomas Paine
God is a comedian
Wernher Von Braun
Galileo Galilei
25. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
To invent -
Oscar Wilde
Without music -
26. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
G. K. Chesterton
Plato
Robert Heinlein
Muhammad Ali
27. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Will Rogers
Like art...
Albert Einstein
28. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
Woody Allen
William Blake
Voltaire
29. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.
Peter Drucker
Mark Twain
Like fire -
Makes more converts
30. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.
Theodore Roosevelt
It just gives.
Rita Mae Brown
Andy Warhol
31. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Isaac Newton
HenryFord
32. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
HenryFord
33. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.
A witty saying
Aldous Huxley
God is a comedian
Death is peaceful.
34. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
George Washington
35. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.
William Shakespeare
Aldous Huxley
Linus Torvalds
Jack Handey
36. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
And I sayWhy not?
Like fire -
Margaret Thatcher
Thomas Paine
37. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Socrates
The first principle
Bjarne Stroustrup
38. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
An eye for an eye
Henry David Thoreau
Woody Allen
Bertrand Russell
39. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Rudyard Kipling
Margaret Thatcher
Get busy living -
And you say Why?
40. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Yogi Berra
John Wooden
Jesse Jackson
Sting like a bee.
41. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Thomas Jefferson
John Wooden
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
42. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
George Carlin
Robert Frost
Napoleon Bonaparte
Christopher Morley
43. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
Pablo Picasso
Money doesnt talk -
44. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Peace begins
Is a waking dream.
Mark Twain
Eleanor Roosevelt
45. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.
Yogi Berra
Wilson Mizner
Decca Recording Co.
Vince Lombardi
46. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
Bob Dylan
Mark Twain
47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Phyllis Diller
Vici
Its inherent virtue
Bob Dylan
48. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Death is peaceful.
Thomas Paine
William Shakespeare
Jonathan Swift
49. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Winston Churchill
It is force!
Pablo Picasso
Adam Smith
50. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
In an hour of play
William Shakespeare
Christopher Morley
Robert Oppenheimer
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