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Famous Quotes Trivia
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1. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Woody Allen
Patrick Henry
Plato
After silence -
2. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
And you say Why?
Louis Pasteur
Mother Teresa
Life is pleasant.
3. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Sam Brown
Isaac Asimov
4. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Mother Teresa
Time
Napoleon Bonaparte
5. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Think for yourself.
Rightly considered.
Wilson Mizner
George Bernard Shaw
6. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
To be the candle
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Wernher Von Braun
7. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Chance favors
Cleaning your house
Christopher Morley
George Bernard Shaw
8. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
What! You too?
Winston Churchill
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no art.
9. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Michael Jordan
Life is pleasant.
Is not Eureka!
Albert Einstein
10. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Niels Bohr
William Shakespeare
Thomas Aquinas
11. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.
Socrates
Yogi Berra
G. K. Chesterton
Friedrich Nietzsche
12. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
George Orwell
Like philosophy -
Edith Wharton
13. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan
Muhammad Ali
It is hard to fail -
Oscar Wilde
14. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Life is pleasant.
Woody Allen
Jonathan Swift
Napoleon Bonaparte
15. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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16. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Leonardo da Vinci
Oscar Wilde
Success is going
17. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h
Aristotle
Mother Teresa
C. S. Lewis
Yogi Berra
18. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.
Mel Brooks
A witty saying
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As they are seized.
19. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Abraham Lincoln
Plato
Carl Sagan
Socrates
20. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
John F. Kennedy
It goes on.
And in that faith -
Plato
21. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
Vici
Plato
Is busy dying.
Thomas Edison
22. 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.
John Donne
Christopher Morley
Woody Allen
Walt Disney
23. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Mae West
William Shakespeare
Vince Lombardi
All great truths
24. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Vince Lombardi
Groucho Marx
T. S. Eliot
Albert Einstein
25. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Familiar with few;
Than he finds.
Douglas Adams
I saw -
26. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.
Death is peaceful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Laozi
Benjamin Franklin
27. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
I hate quotations.
Vince Lombardi
G. K. Chesterton
28. A witty saying proves nothing.
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
29. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.
Galileo Galilei
Socrates
Its inherent virtue
Fools rush in
30. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
Tis dearness only
It was here first.
Douglas Adams
Daniel Webster
31. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
Dave Barry
I think;
God is a comedian
C.A.R. Hoare
32. 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
It goes on.
Peace at any price -
Albert Einstein
Talent will not;
33. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.
And you say Why?
Wisdom begins
Douglas Adams
William Shakespeare
34. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Rita Mae Brown
Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Jefferson
All over again.
35. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
Bertrand Russell
But time will not.
Peter Drucker
Henry David Thoreau
36. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Woody Allen
Winston Churchill
Enemy to none.
John F. Kennedy
37. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.
Glory is fleeting -
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Michael Jordan
38. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
With a smile.
George Carlin
Henry David Thoreau
Sam Brown
39. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____
What is now proved
To know everything.
John Lennon
Paul Harvey
40. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
Woody Allen
Plato
41. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
Jonathan Swift
Robert Frost
G. K. Chesterton
Socrates
42. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Pablo Picasso
Dwight Eisenhower
Margaret Mead
Mark Twain
43. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Calvin Coolidge
Dave Barry
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
44. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Thomas Edison
William Shakespeare
John F. Kennedy
45. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
Like fire -
Leonardo da Vinci
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
46. 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
Talent will not;
The first principle
George Bernard Shaw
Always do right--
47. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
John F. Kennedy
Saki
Richard P. Feynman
Mark Twain
48. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
Is another matter.
Socrates
Alexander Pope
Steven Wright
49. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
G. K. Chesterton
Mark Twain
It is force!
50. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
But it does rhyme.
Winston Churchill
John Dalberg-Acton
Mark Twain
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