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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Meet any hardship -
Leonardo da Vinci
Yogi Berra
Theodore Roosevelt
2. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Robert Frost
Kahlil Gibran
Friedrich Nietzsche
Play on.
3. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Aquinas
Henry David Thoreau
4. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Augustine
Henry David Thoreau
John F. Kennedy
Socrates
5. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Mark Twain
Paul Harvey
George Orwell
In an hour of play
6. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Oscar Levant
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
Winston Churchill
7. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
I'm a Democrat!
Mother Teresa
Oscar Wilde
Always do right--
8. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Mother Teresa
Decca Recording Co.
Mahatma Gandhi
Or get busy dying.
9. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Rudyard Kipling
Vince Lombardi
In its worst state -
Let us - to the end -
10. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Socrates
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
Edith Wharton
11. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
In an hour of play
Socrates
12. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Scott Adams
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
The prepared mind.
13. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.
Alexander Pope
Winston Churchill
H. G. Wells
Kurt Vonnegut
14. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
Kahlil Gibran
15. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
I conquered.)
Ansel Adams
Saki
With what you have -
16. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Ronald Reagan
Vici
C. S. Lewis
William Shakespeare
17. 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.
The first principle
Mark Twain
But blood - toil -
Leonardo da Vinci
18. 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.
And the Universe
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Sun Tzu
19. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.
Oscar Wilde
He is richest
Isaac Asimov
Saint Augustine
20. 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.
Carl Sagan
Is never accurate
Mark Twain
Present
21. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____
It goes on.
Theodore Roosevelt
Well done is better
But wisdom listens.
22. 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.
William Blake
Winston Churchill
A witty saying
Thomas Paine
23. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Nixon
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
24. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
An eye for an eye
Peace at any price -
Aldous Huxley
As they are seized.
25. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
Napoleon Bonaparte
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Edison
26. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____
Do - or do not.
Socrates
Aristotle
Till its over.
27. An unexamined life is not worth living.
I'm a Democrat!
Socrates
Thomas Paine
Oscar Wilde
28. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
Will Rogers
Emily Dickinson
29. 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.
Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche
Woody Allen
I conquered.)
30. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Speak softly
It tolls for thee.
And the pessimist
And I sayWhy not?
31. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____
Is another matter.
I think;
To utter
Mark Twain
32. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Carl Sagan
Mark Twain
Bjarne Stroustrup
Sting like a bee.
33. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Winston Churchill
What! You too?
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
34. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.
Ronald Reagan
A new nation -
Mother Teresa
Oscar Wilde
35. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Pope
Sun Tzu
Isaac Newton
36. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
To know everything.
Mark Twain
What is now proved
37. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
Plato
As they are seized.
Margaret Mead
Mark Twain
38. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
(I came -
Thomas Jefferson
39. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Douglas Adams
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
Oscar Wilde
40. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe
William Shakespeare
Socrates
George Washington
Calvin Coolidge
41. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Veni -
Niels Bohr
George Washington
Thomas Edison
42. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
The chief business
Wilson Mizner
Epictetus
Trust a few -
43. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.
Mother Teresa
Lewis Carroll
Patrick Henry
Oscar Wilde
44. 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.
Thomas Paine
Than reason.
Richard P. Feynman
Like fire -
45. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Walt Disney
Woody Allen
Phyllis Diller
I have not failed.
46. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____
C. S. Lewis
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Adams
Or Not guilty.
47. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
What is now proved
Will Rogers
48. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Than he finds.
Theodore Roosevelt
49. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
Entire of itself;
William Shakespeare
Every rocket fired -
Bertrand Russell
50. If music be the food of love - play on.
John Dalberg-Acton
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare