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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.
Do what you can -
Theodore Roosevelt
Leonardo da Vinci
Mother Teresa
2. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Charles Darwin
Robert Frost
There are painters
Plato
3. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Isaac Asimov
Ansel Adams
Mark Twain
4. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Julius Caesar
Aristotle
Victor Hugo
Mark Twain
5. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
C. S. Lewis
H. G. Wells
Winston Churchill
6. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Mark Twain
Walt Disney
Napoleon Bonaparte
George S. Patton
7. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Where the spirit
Dave Barry
George Bernard Shaw
It was here first.
8. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Isaac Newton
Yoda
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
9. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Dwight Eisenhower
HenryFord
Vici
Sun Tzu
10. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God is a comedian
Henry David Thoreau
Victor Hugo
Benjamin Franklin
11. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Muhammad Ali
Aldous Huxley
It tolls for thee.
Is never accurate
12. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
I conquered.)
Benjamin Franklin
John F. Kennedy
Robert Frost
13. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Winston Churchill
Thats relativity.
Dorothy Parker
Albert Einstein
14. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Take it.
Always do right--
In fact they do so.
Benjamin Franklin
15. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll
John F. Kennedy
Victor Hugo
Wernher Von Braun
16. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Robert Oppenheimer
John F. Kennedy
Albert Einstein
Decca Recording Co.
17. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.
The first principle
Oscar Wilde
Like philosophy -
Mark Twain
18. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
H. M. Warner
Plato
Behind the lines -
Will Rogers
19. 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.
Mae West
Scott Adams
Saint Augustine
Ronald Reagan
20. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Aldous Huxley
Friedrich Nietzsche
21. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.
Blaise Pascal
William Shakespeare
Than reason.
Henry David Thoreau
22. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Charles Darwin
Is not Eureka!
Ah! the farce.
Ansel Adams
23. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Dwight Eisenhower
Tis dearness only
Mario Andretti
William Shakespeare
24. 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.
Will Rogers
Oscar Wilde
Socrates
So - first of all -
25. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Bertrand Russell
Bob Dylan
But it does rhyme.
26. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Be kind -
Therefore I am.
Than he finds.
27. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
All over again.
Dave Barry
George Orwell
28. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
To find yourself -
George Washington
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friedrich Nietzsche
29. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.
In an hour of play
Mark Twain
Francis Bacon
Yogi Berra
30. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Muhammad Ali
Julius Caesar
Mark Twain
In wonder.
31. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Saul Bellow
Is to be one.
Theodore Roosevelt
Present
32. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Robert Frost
John Wooden
Joseph Stalin
Thomas Jefferson
33. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
In fact they do so.
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
Winston Churchill
34. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Bertrand Russell
Mahatma Gandhi
Socrates
W. Somerset Maugham
35. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
True friends
Thomas Edison
To find yourself -
Ronald Reagan
36. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
Thats relativity.
George Carlin
37. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
Terry Pratchett
Without music -
Bertrand Russell
With a smile.
38. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
A witty saying
Vince Lombardi
39. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Death is peaceful.
Patrick Henry
Charles Darwin
George Bernard Shaw
40. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Socrates
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
The first principle
41. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Patrick Henry
Abraham Lincoln
HenryFord
42. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Augustine
Patrick Henry
Wit
43. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
George Washington
Gobble their food -
44. If you are going through hell - keep going.
Vidi -
Winston Churchill
And in that faith -
T. S. Eliot
45. You may delay - but time will not.
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin
Bertrand Russell
46. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown
Thomas Jefferson
Yogi Berra
To be the candle
47. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
Jimi Hendrix
Rene Descartes
48. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
A witty saying
Julius Caesar
Is another matter.
Socrates
49. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Winston Churchill
Kurt Vonnegut
Theodore Roosevelt
After silence -
50. There are no facts - only interpretations.
Socrates
Friedrich Nietzsche
Abraham Lincoln
To invent -
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