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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____
Niels Bohr
Mark Twain
To know everything.
Thomas Paine
2. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar Levant
To know everything.
Voltaire
Is a waking dream.
3. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
John Donne
Woody Allen
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
4. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
John F. Kennedy
All over again.
Phyllis Diller
5. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Thomas Edison
Theodore Roosevelt
Think for yourself.
6. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Money doesnt talk -
Carl Sagan
Robert Frost
Vince Lombardi
7. 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.
William Shakespeare
Dwight Eisenhower
Where you are.
Always do right--
8. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
John F. Kennedy
Vidi -
Mahatma Gandhi
George Orwell
9. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
William James
Thomas Jefferson
Calvin Coolidge
10. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Muhammad Ali
Rightly considered.
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
11. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____
Albert Einstein
Robert Kennedy
Veni -
Is showing up.
12. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Or Not guilty.
Is busy dying.
Patrick Henry
Ronald Reagan
13. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
Do what you can -
There is no art.
Alexander Pope
Thomas Edison
14. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____
Niels Bohr
Mother Teresa
George Santayana
Enemy to none.
15. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Do - or do not.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It tolls for thee.
16. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.
Talent will not;
To invent -
Oscar Wilde
Mae West
17. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Niels Bohr
Keep going.
18. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.
Vince Lombardi
Phyllis Diller
Will Rogers
You see things;
19. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Do wrong to none.
Vince Lombardi
Woody Allen
Time
20. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Albert Einstein
John Donne
21. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.
Dorothy Parker
Vince Lombardi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ernest Hemingway
22. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
True friends
Ronald Reagan
All great truths
It goes on.
23. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
And you say Why?
Is Music
Saul Bellow
24. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Richard P. Feynman
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Paine
George Carlin
25. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Leonardo da Vinci
Like philosophy -
Oscar Wilde
Dave Barry
26. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
It goes on.
And in that faith -
Maybe this world
27. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Calvin Coolidge
Oscar Wilde
An intolerable one.
You see things;
28. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Winston Churchill
Voltaire
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
29. Money doesnt talk - it swears.
Henry David Thoreau
Take it.
Bob Dylan
It was here first.
30. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Dorothy Parker
Socrates
Pablo Picasso
Be more concerned
31. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
To know everything.
Therefore I am.
George Orwell
An intolerable one.
32. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
George Bernard Shaw
Theodore Roosevelt
Sam Brown
Socrates
33. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
James Branch Cabell
And I sayWhy not?
Victor Hugo
Aldous Huxley
34. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.
An intolerable one.
Naked people have
W. Somerset Maugham
Mark Twain
35. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
William Shakespeare
Patrick Henry
Mother Teresa
36. 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.
Winston Churchill
Mother Teresa
G. K. Chesterton
Ronald Reagan
37. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Samuel Johnson
To err is human;
Thomas Jefferson
Ah! the farce.
38. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
Talent will not;
In wonder.
William Shakespeare
Theodore Roosevelt
39. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
In wonder.
Adam Smith
Isaac Asimov
Terry Pratchett
40. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
Michael Jordan
41. 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.
Take it.
Like fire -
Winston Churchill
Cleaning your house
42. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Henry David Thoreau
Without music -
And I sayWhy not?
Let us - to the end -
43. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
In its worst state -
George Orwell
Time
44. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Muhammad Ali
Life is pleasant.
It just gives.
Linus Torvalds
45. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
Is business.
To know everything.
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
46. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Mark Twain
H. G. Wells
An unexamined life
Emily Dickinson
47. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Henry David Thoreau
George Washington
48. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Louis Pasteur
Dwight Eisenhower
Pablo Picasso
Bertrand Russell
49. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
50. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.
Albert Einstein
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
Epictetus
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