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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Or get busy dying.
Calvin Coolidge
Oscar Wilde
2. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
Jimi Hendrix
Samuel Adams
3. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Albert Einstein
But wisdom listens.
Will Rogers
Friend to one;
4. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Take it.
Rita Mae Brown
Muhammad Ali
5. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.
Niels Bohr
Rich Cook
All great truths
HenryFord
6. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Carl Sagan
I saw -
There is no art.
Kahlil Gibran
7. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.
Benjamin Franklin
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Richard P. Feynman
8. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Socrates
With the very best.
William Shakespeare
Thomas Paine
9. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro
Take it.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
10. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Aristotle
Simplicity
With what you have -
Than reason.
11. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Kurt Vonnegut
Without music -
And a pile of junk.
Vince Lombardi
12. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Thats relativity.
Winston Churchill
Well done is better
Plato
13. 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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To err is human;
Alexander Pope
Albert Einstein
14. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
Yogi Berra
Must - like men -
Aristotle
15. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.
Dave Barry
But blood - toil -
Do wrong to none.
Thomas Aquinas
16. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
An intolerable one.
Thomas Jefferson
Richard P. Feynman
Socrates
17. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Richard Nixon
Benjamin Franklin
Proves nothing.
Is a waking dream.
18. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Bill Gates
Think for yourself.
It goes on.
Galileo Galilei
19. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
H. M. Warner
H. G. Wells
Richard P. Feynman
John F. Kennedy
20. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Its inherent virtue
Bertrand Russell
Leonardo da Vinci
Plato
21. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Fools rush in
Francis Bacon
Without music -
Ronald Reagan
22. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
When people die
Thomas Paine
And the Macintosh -
C. S. Lewis
23. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
Is never accurate
Winston Churchill
Must - like men -
John F. Kennedy
24. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Robert Frost
Will Durant
I - at any rate -
Plato
25. 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.
Read only a page.
Bertrand Russell
Fears this is true.
To know everything.
26. 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.
Muhammad Ali
Rich Cook
Benjamin Franklin
William Shakespeare
27. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.
Pablo Picasso
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
28. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
Dwight Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
Oscar Levant
29. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
And a pile of junk.
Is not Eureka!
Winston Churchill
With what you have -
30. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Chance favors
31. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
George Carlin
Winston Churchill
Samuel Adams
32. Aristotle said: Hope _____
It swears.
Pablo Picasso
Is a waking dream.
Chance favors
33. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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34. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
In fact they do so.
Leonardo da Vinci
Jonathan Swift
John F. Kennedy
35. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
Do what you can -
Richard Nixon
Thomas Jefferson
36. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vince Lombardi
Oscar Levant
Winston Churchill
37. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Leonardo da Vinci
Marcel Proust
Where you are.
Emily Dickinson
38. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
Benjamin Franklin
An eye for an eye
Read only a page.
William Shakespeare
39. Without music - life would be a mistake.
Mark Twain
In wonder.
Let us - to the end -
Friedrich Nietzsche
40. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Cleaning your house
Theodore Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
Behind the lines -
41. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Benjamin Franklin
Christopher Morley
Plato
Samuel Johnson
42. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Except temptation.
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
43. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...
Alexander Pope
Isaac Asimov
Calvin Coolidge
Muhammad Ali
44. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Samuel Adams
Thomas Paine
Glory is fleeting -
45. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Mark Twain
Is fear itself
It is force!
Or get busy dying.
46. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Its inherent virtue
Mark Twain
In its worst state -
Thomas Edison
47. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
William Blake
Andy Warhol
Alexander Pope
Kahlil Gibran
48. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Time
An eye for an eye
49. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____
Napoleon Bonaparte
In wonder.
Henry David Thoreau
Thats relativity.
50. I am not young enough to know everything.
George Orwell
Douglas Adams
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
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