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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. I think; therefore I am.
Victor Hugo
Rene Descartes
Do what you can -
Than well said.
2. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Oscar Wilde
Victor Hugo
And men and dogs
Is business.
3. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Can be wonderful.
Rightly considered.
Winston Churchill
John F. Kennedy
4. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Abraham Lincoln
A witty saying
Mark Twain
Decca Recording Co.
5. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.
Socrates
But wisdom listens.
In wonder.
Groucho Marx
6. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
And I sayWhy not?
Samuel Adams
John Wooden
Mark Twain
7. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Woody Allen
Muhammad Ali
John F. Kennedy
Napoleon Bonaparte
8. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain
And the Universe
Winston Churchill
9. Wit is well-bred insolence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Till its over.
Aristotle
Bertrand Russell
10. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Is to invent it.
Ansel Adams
Christopher Morley
11. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
George Bernard Shaw
Pablo Picasso
John Donne
George Eliot
12. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
To invent -
Rightly considered.
Bob Dylan
Bill Gates
13. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Is business.
Vince Lombardi
Mark Twain
Ronald Reagan
14. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
It just gives.
Thomas Paine
Saul Bellow
George Washington
15. 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.
Isaac Newton
Winston Churchill
But it does rhyme.
Mark Twain
16. I think; therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
Mark Twain
Peace begins
Muhammad Ali
17. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Albert Einstein
Peace at any price -
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
18. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
Mark Twain
Rudyard Kipling
Benjamin Franklin
19. 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.
So - first of all -
What is now proved
Linus Torvalds
Yogi Berra
20. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Voltaire
Is busy dying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With what you have -
21. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
C.A.R. Hoare
Maybe this world
John F. Kennedy
William Shakespeare
22. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winning is a habit.
Winston Churchill
C. S. Lewis
Will Rogers
23. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Robert Frost
Dave Barry
Mother Teresa
Douglas Adams
24. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Bill Gates
Woody Allen
Familiar with few;
Douglas Adams
25. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Get busy living -
Bjarne Stroustrup
Napoleon Bonaparte
Winston Churchill
26. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
But time will not.
Alexander Pope
Mark Twain
27. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Aristotle
Socrates
Muhammad Ali
Alan Kay
28. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Scott Adams
Saki
What! You too?
An intolerable one.
29. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Scott Adams
HenryFord
Veni -
Robert Oppenheimer
30. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Albert Einstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Vince Lombardi
Vidi -
31. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Abraham Lincoln
Samuel Johnson
Yogi Berra
Vince Lombardi
32. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
H. G. Wells
Mark Twain
Socrates
To be the candle
33. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
I think;
Mark Twain
Jonathan Swift
Thomas Edison
34. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Mother Teresa
Charles Darwin
Woody Allen
Epictetus
35. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Oscar Wilde
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Woody Allen
36. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.
John F. Kennedy
W. Somerset Maugham
Benjamin Franklin
There are no facts -
37. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
Success is going
Socrates
Edith Wharton
38. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
Samuel Adams
Dwight Eisenhower
A single soul
Winston Churchill
39. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Is never accurate
Laozi
Mark Twain
Success is going
40. 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.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Walt Disney
Mark Twain
Rich Cook
41. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
But wisdom listens.
William Shakespeare
Bertrand Russell
To be the candle
42. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____
But time will not.
G. K. Chesterton
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
43. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
What is now proved
Christopher Morley
I think;
44. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Henry David Thoreau
Ronald Reagan
Voltaire
Thomas Aquinas
45. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.
George Carlin
Its inherent virtue
Mark Twain
G. K. Chesterton
46. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Isaac Newton
Entire of itself;
Women and cats
Aldous Huxley
47. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Oscar Wilde
To invent -
Winston Churchill
Mario Andretti
48. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Darwin
To err is human;
Ernest Hemingway
49. Time makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Paine
Douglas Adams
Death is peaceful.
Robert Frost
50. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Bob Dylan
Mark Twain
Rightly considered.
Yogi Berra
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