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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
John F. Kennedy
Veni -
Can be wonderful.
Familiar with few;
2. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
William Shakespeare
To know everything.
Thomas Paine
H. M. Warner
3. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.
Mother Teresa
C. S. Lewis
Wit
William Shakespeare
4. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Well done is better
John Wayne
Laozi
Ronald Reagan
5. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.
Mahatma Gandhi
Wisdom begins
Mother Teresa
Henry David Thoreau
6. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____
It just gives.
George Santayana
George Orwell
Samuel Johnson
7. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success is going
William Shakespeare
Behind the lines -
George Bernard Shaw
8. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____
It tolls for thee.
Richard P. Feynman
John F. Kennedy
Ansel Adams
9. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
George Orwell
Take it.
Voltaire
Thomas Edison
10. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
Scott Adams
Yogi Berra
Where you are.
Fools rush in
11. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Robert Frost
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Isaac Newton
C. S. Lewis
12. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Except temptation.
Thomas Aquinas
Muhammad Ali
Winston Churchill
13. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
You see things;
Niels Bohr
Mark Twain
The prepared mind.
14. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
A single soul
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Peace begins
15. 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.
Bill Gates
So - first of all -
Bob Dylan
Than reason.
16. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
I have not failed.
Adam Smith
Plato
Wilson Mizner
17. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
C.A.R. Hoare
18. 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.
Daniel Webster
Robert Heinlein
Ronald Reagan
Robert Frost
19. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Bill Gates
What is now proved
And the Universe
Benjamin Franklin
20. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.
Must - like men -
John F. Kennedy
Jonathan Swift
To err is human;
21. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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22. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.
When people die
Carl Sagan
Benjamin Franklin
Plato
23. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.
Terry Pratchett
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
24. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Simplicity
Religion
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
25. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Bertrand Russell
Samuel Adams
Is fear itself
26. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____
Or get busy dying.
It swears.
It aint over
Ronald Reagan
27. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright
William Shakespeare
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert Frost
28. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Alexander Pope
Aristotle
W. Somerset Maugham
Winston Churchill
29. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
Socrates
George Orwell
30. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Mark Twain
Charles Darwin
Bertrand Russell
Do what you can -
31. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon Bonaparte
What! You too?
Mark Twain
32. 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
Dave Barry
Calvin Coolidge
Margaret Thatcher
Robert Kennedy
33. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Thomas Edison
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Tears and sweat.
34. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Mark Twain
Ansel Adams
Robert Frost
Mel Brooks
35. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Jefferson
Time
Read only a page.
Be more concerned
36. _____ 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
Henry David Thoreau
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
37. If music be the food of love - play on.
Leonardo da Vinci
Socrates
Terry Pratchett
William Shakespeare
38. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
William Shakespeare
The chief business
Do wrong to none.
Vidi -
39. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
40. I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
41. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson
Emily Dickinson
George Eliot
42. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
C. S. Lewis
Mel Brooks
Trust a few -
But blood - toil -
43. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Thomas Aquinas
Mae West
Vince Lombardi
True friends
44. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Joseph Stalin
Thomas Watson
Thomas Paine
In an hour of play
45. He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates
There is no art.
Sam Brown
C. S. Lewis
46. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Socrates
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Galileo Galilei
47. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
But wisdom listens.
Plato
James Branch Cabell
Mark Twain
48. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.
Robert Frost
The first principle
Jesse Jackson
And the pessimist
49. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.
Winston Churchill
Take it.
Samuel Adams
A witty saying
50. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
Theodore Roosevelt
Will Rogers
Albert Einstein
Theodore Roosevelt