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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Linus Torvalds
Makes more converts
Benjamin Franklin
Every rocket fired -
2. True friends stab you in the front.
William Shakespeare
Leonardo da Vinci
An eye for an eye
Oscar Wilde
3. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Robert Frost
And the Macintosh -
Voltaire
When people die
4. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
5. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
John Lennon
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Napoleon Bonaparte
With the very best.
6. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Mark Twain
Mother Teresa
With a smile.
Is not Eureka!
7. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Thomas Edison
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Ansel Adams
8. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.
Is Music
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
Oscar Wilde
9. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____
Epictetus
Is Music
Fools rush in
Wilson Mizner
10. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
C.A.R. Hoare
W. Somerset Maugham
Silence is golden
Aristotle
11. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
And in that faith -
George Washington
Samuel Adams
Victor Hugo
12. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Robert Frost
Thomas Edison
It goes on.
Will Durant
13. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
Play on.
Mark Twain
14. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____ am convinced that He doe
Dave Barry
Rudyard Kipling
Scott Adams
I - at any rate -
15. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.
Mark Twain
To be the candle
Rightly considered.
It is force!
16. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____
George Washington
William James
Sting like a bee.
Winston Churchill
17. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
Like philosophy -
God is a comedian
Therefore I am.
A single soul
18. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.
John Lennon
Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Pablo Picasso
19. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Vici
Ronald Reagan
And the pessimist
Do - or do not.
20. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
Familiar with few;
And the pessimist
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
21. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.
Wilson Mizner
Is a waking dream.
Rene Descartes
Marcel Proust
22. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.
Margaret Mead
Will Rogers
Wisdom begins
And in that faith -
23. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
Alexander Pope
Play on.
24. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Charles Darwin
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Joseph Stalin
25. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.
There is no art.
Voltaire
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
26. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
Linus Torvalds
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
27. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Be kind -
There are painters
Eleanor Roosevelt
28. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
There are painters
Woody Allen
Socrates
John Donne
29. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
Theodore Roosevelt
Victor Hugo
Muhammad Ali
30. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ 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 de
Benjamin Franklin
William James
Mahatma Gandhi
Talent will not;
31. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
And you say Why?
Robert Oppenheimer
Think for yourself.
And a pile of junk.
32. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Bertrand Russell
And the Macintosh -
John F. Kennedy
33. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Dave Barry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Charles Darwin
Death is peaceful.
But it does rhyme.
Yogi Berra
35. 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.
And a pile of junk.
Enemy to none.
There is no try.
Is never accurate
36. 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
Plato
Every rocket fired -
Margaret Thatcher
37. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
A witty saying
Robert Oppenheimer
In wonder.
Mark Twain
38. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
It is hard to fail -
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
39. 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.
Oscar Wilde
Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
Socrates
40. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.
Oscar Wilde
Let us - to the end -
And men and dogs
Albert Einstein
41. Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Be more concerned
Thomas Paine
Theodore Roosevelt
42. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Plato
With the very best.
James Branch Cabell
Carl Sagan
43. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Kurt Vonnegut
I'm a Democrat!
Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Paine
44. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
Do - or do not.
Religion
45. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
After silence -
John Donne
William Shakespeare
When people laugh.
46. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Ronald Reagan
Can be wonderful.
Calvin Coolidge
Patrick Henry
47. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
George Santayana
Mark Twain
Epictetus
An unexamined life
48. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Trust a few -
(I came -
Winston Churchill
Socrates
49. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Paul Harvey
Steven Wright
Bertrand Russell
There are painters
50. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.
Thomas Paine
Bertrand Russell
George Santayana
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