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Famous Quotes Trivia

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1. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






2. There are no facts - only interpretations.






3. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






4. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






5. 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.






6. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






7. 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.






8. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






9. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






10. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






11. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






12. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






13. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






14. 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.






15. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






16. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






17. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






18. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






19. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






20. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






21. I can resist everything except temptation.






22. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






23. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






24. 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.






25. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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26. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






27. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






28. ____ 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






29. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






30. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






31. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






32. You may delay - but time will not.






33. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






34. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






35. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






36. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






37. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






38. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






39. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






40. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






41. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






42. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






43. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






44. To find yourself - think for yourself.






45. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






46. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






47. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






48. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






49. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






50. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.