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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
The chief business
John Wooden
An intolerable one.
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Is to be one.
Thomas Edison
William Blake
3. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
T. S. Eliot
H. M. Warner
Till its over.
Bertrand Russell
4. There are no facts - only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An intolerable one.
Thomas Edison
George Eliot
5. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
George S. Patton
Mother Teresa
Where you are.
Calvin Coolidge
6. 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.
Its kind of fun
Eleanor Roosevelt
And in that faith -
Albert Einstein
7. 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.
Terry Pratchett
Winston Churchill
It is force!
Ansel Adams
8. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Jefferson
9. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Rudyard Kipling
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Edison
Andy Warhol
10. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
The first principle
Benjamin Franklin
11. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
Except temptation.
12. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
Without music -
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
13. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Carl Sagan
Thomas Jefferson
Vince Lombardi
Richard P. Feynman
14. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
Leonardo da Vinci
Walt Disney
Napoleon Bonaparte
You may delay -
15. 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.
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte
Like fire -
Therefore I am.
16. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Woody Allen
Adam Smith
Bob Dylan
17. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Scott Adams
Maybe this world
Play on.
Adam Smith
18. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Mark Twain
Socrates
Isaac Asimov
And a pile of junk.
19. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Oscar Wilde
Will Durant
In wonder.
Mark Twain
20. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine
Mother Teresa
Epictetus
Oscar Wilde
21. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Is not Eureka!
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
I have not failed.
22. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Terry Pratchett
Richard P. Feynman
Robert Frost
23. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Margaret Thatcher
Meet any hardship -
Bertrand Russell
I conquered.)
24. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Richard Nixon
Napoleon Bonaparte
Socrates
Naked people have
25. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
The prepared mind.
Oscar Wilde
Proves nothing.
Dave Barry
26. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Will Rogers
In fact they do so.
C. S. Lewis
Mark Twain
27. 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.
Linus Torvalds
Maybe this world
Mark Twain
Ah! the farce.
28. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
Louis Pasteur
Galileo Galilei
There are painters
W. Somerset Maugham
29. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
I think;
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
Talent will not;
30. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Galileo Galilei
Samuel Adams
HenryFord
31. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Richard Nixon
Is another matter.
Jimi Hendrix
Aristotle
32. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.
Is not Eureka!
Margaret Mead
Where you are.
Ronald Reagan
33. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Where you are.
Well done is better
34. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
John Wooden
Mahatma Gandhi
Samuel Adams
Oscar Wilde
35. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Carlin
Mark Twain
Wisdom begins
36. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Bill Gates
Be kind -
Benjamin Franklin
Plato
37. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
It swears.
38. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Behind the lines -
All over again.
Thomas Edison
Saul Bellow
39. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
So - first of all -
Alexander Pope
Douglas Adams
Mark Twain
40. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
And you say Why?
To utter
Rudyard Kipling
You may delay -
41. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.
Its inherent virtue
The first principle
T. S. Eliot
Douglas Adams
42. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
An unexamined life
43. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.
Women and cats
Dave Barry
Winston Churchill
William Shakespeare
44. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Thomas Edison
Oscar Wilde
Theodore Roosevelt
George Carlin
45. If music be the food of love - play on.
William Shakespeare
But it does rhyme.
Leonardo da Vinci
Oscar Wilde
46. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Augustine
Pablo Picasso
Eleanor Roosevelt
Kahlil Gibran
47. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.
Where the spirit
John F. Kennedy
Dave Barry
Leonardo da Vinci
48. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.
Present
Stephen Hawking
Well done is better
Bob Dylan
49. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Decca Recording Co.
Women and cats
Niels Bohr
Fools rush in
50. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
Richard P. Feynman
Margaret Thatcher
Mark Twain
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