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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
An eye for an eye
Eleanor Roosevelt
Walt Disney
Mother Teresa
2. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
And I sayWhy not?
Winston Churchill
Peace begins
Michael Jordan
3. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
William Blake
John Milton
Talent will not;
Woody Allen
4. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
And the Macintosh -
Death is peaceful.
Steve Wozniak
Robert Kennedy
5. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Mark Twain
Bertrand Russell
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
6. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Is Music
Mark Twain
It aint over
Yogi Berra
7. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Peter Drucker
Edith Wharton
William Blake
8. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newton
Alexander Pope
Sting like a bee.
Winston Churchill
9. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Richard Nixon
God is a comedian
Ronald Reagan
Henry David Thoreau
10. Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Henry David Thoreau
Winston Churchill
Where the spirit
11. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Socrates
An eye for an eye
12. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.
William Shakespeare
Success is going
Dwight Eisenhower
Aristotle
13. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
I think;
Mark Twain
Ah! the farce.
Peter Drucker
14. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Thomas Paine
Napoleon Bonaparte
Plato
Albert Einstein
15. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
Is busy dying.
Albert Einstein
An eye for an eye
Thomas Paine
16. John Wooden said: _____ 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
Be more concerned
Theodore Roosevelt
G. K. Chesterton
17. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Mother Teresa
Present
To invent -
I'm a Democrat!
18. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.
Mark Twain
Eleanor Roosevelt
Albert Einstein
Bertrand Russell
19. 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
George S. Patton
Socrates
Hope
20. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Galileo Galilei
Time
Groucho Marx
Edith Wharton
21. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Yogi Berra
Plato
Robert Frost
Ernest Hemingway
22. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley
Victor Hugo
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
23. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Winston Churchill
H. G. Wells
True friends
Napoleon Bonaparte
24. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Mark Twain
To invent -
Be kind -
All great truths
25. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
Therefore I am.
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
26. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Albert Einstein
John Wooden
An intolerable one.
Winning is a habit.
27. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winston Churchill
28. Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
I conquered.)
Oscar Wilde
Trust a few -
29. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Knowledge speaks -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend to one;
Jack Handey
30. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.
Let us - to the end -
And the pessimist
Richard P. Feynman
To err is human;
31. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Mother Teresa
Charles Darwin
Andy Warhol
Niels Bohr
32. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Woody Allen
There are no facts -
Plato
Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Isaac Newton
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
With what you have -
34. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____
Winston Churchill
Saki
Do wrong to none.
Glory is fleeting -
35. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
George Bernard Shaw
Alexander Pope
Life is pleasant.
36. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight Eisenhower
Aldous Huxley
Winston Churchill
And a pile of junk.
37. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
William Shakespeare
Wernher Von Braun
Margaret Thatcher
In wonder.
38. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
Saki
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
Margaret Thatcher
39. 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.
John Wooden
Trust a few -
Meet any hardship -
Kahlil Gibran
40. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Meet any hardship -
Niels Bohr
Thomas Jefferson
Religion
41. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dave Barry
An eye for an eye
Always do right--
42. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Groucho Marx
Mother Teresa
Success is going
Theodore Roosevelt
43. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
With a smile.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
44. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert Heinlein
C. S. Lewis
Death is peaceful.
Thomas Jefferson
45. 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.
Mother Teresa
Charles Darwin
What! You too?
Groucho Marx
46. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Richard Nixon
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
Richard P. Feynman
47. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Rich Cook
Socrates
48. 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.
Jesse Jackson
Peace begins
It is force!
I think;
49. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
There is no try.
Ronald Reagan
50. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight Eisenhower
George Orwell
And the Universe
William Shakespeare
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