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Famous Quotes Trivia
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1. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Andy Warhol
Kahlil Gibran
A witty saying
Will Rogers
2. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Woody Allen
Theodore Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
Leonardo da Vinci
3. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Thomas Aquinas
Bertrand Russell
Mother Teresa
John Lennon
4. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
With a smile.
Niels Bohr
It is force!
Winston Churchill
5. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
6. I am not young enough to know everything.
Alexander Pope
C. S. Lewis
Oscar Wilde
Socrates
7. 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.
Mark Twain
Bertrand Russell
I think;
Tom Clancy
8. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Tears and sweat.
Plato
Richard P. Feynman
Alan Kay
9. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____
George Orwell
It was here first.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
10. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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11. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
True friends
There is no try.
Rightly considered.
Jonathan Swift
12. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Oscar Wilde
Benjamin Franklin
It just gives.
It swears.
13. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Chance favors
Ah! the farce.
Wilson Mizner
14. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
Thomas Paine
Till its over.
Get busy living -
Thomas Edison
15. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
HenryFord
Thomas Jefferson
Till its over.
16. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
William Shakespeare
It aint over
Winston Churchill
Must - like men -
17. He is richest who is content with the least.
Wisdom begins
Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
George Carlin
18. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
Aristotle
(I came -
Woody Allen
Napoleon Bonaparte
19. 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.
To find yourself -
Plato
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
20. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
William Shakespeare
John Wooden
Albert Einstein
John Lennon
21. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.
Christopher Morley
Saint Augustine
Will Rogers
Winston Churchill
22. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Dwight Eisenhower
Time
George Orwell
But time will not.
23. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
Bertrand Russell
George Eliot
You may delay -
24. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Thomas Edison
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Paine
Bob Dylan
25. To be - or not to be - That is the question.
Robert Frost
To err is human;
William Shakespeare
It tolls for thee.
26. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
In the gym -
Henry David Thoreau
Let us - to the end -
I think;
27. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Mae West
Aristotle
Is another matter.
Plato
28. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Robert Frost
Chance favors
Abraham Lincoln
29. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Vidi -
Leonardo da Vinci
An intolerable one.
Mark Twain
30. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Winston Churchill
George S. Patton
Margaret Thatcher
John Wooden
31. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
But time will not.
32. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Mae West
George Carlin
Read only a page.
Samuel Johnson
33. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
An intolerable one.
Isaac Asimov
Napoleon Bonaparte
George Bernard Shaw
34. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.
When people laugh.
William Blake
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
35. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Veni -
Stephen Hawking
A single soul
Thomas Jefferson
36. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
Like fire -
Gobble their food -
37. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
And the Universe
George Bernard Shaw
True friends
38. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte
39. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Henry David Thoreau
Is to invent it.
Kahlil Gibran
Mother Teresa
40. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Thomas Jefferson
C. S. Lewis
Is a waking dream.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Muhammad Ali
Mark Twain
G. K. Chesterton
Calvin Coolidge
42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.
All great truths
Wilson Mizner
Yoda
Dorothy Parker
43. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Than well said.
C.A.R. Hoare
Eleanor Roosevelt
Simplicity
44. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Richard P. Feynman
Mark Twain
Plato
45. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.
Kahlil Gibran
Theodore Roosevelt
Meet any hardship -
In its worst state -
46. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Mark Twain
Calvin Coolidge
Isaac Asimov
It is force!
47. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Peter Drucker
Winston Churchill
This above all
Voltaire
48. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HenryFord
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
49. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____
Henry David Thoreau
Is to invent it.
Mel Brooks
Wit
50. 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.
Galileo Galilei
Rita Mae Brown
A witty saying
Is to invent it.
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