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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Winston Churchill
George S. Patton
Is business.
Robert Frost
2. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
Than he finds.
And men and dogs
There are no facts -
Rita Mae Brown
3. There are no facts - only interpretations.
Winston Churchill
Friedrich Nietzsche
Where the spirit
Richard Nixon
4. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____
Douglas Adams
Peter Drucker
Enemy to none.
Walt Disney
5. 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.
Mark Twain
To invent -
Peter Drucker
Leonardo da Vinci
6. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
Patrick Henry
I think;
William Blake
Muhammad Ali
7. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Dave Barry
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
But wisdom listens.
8. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
Thomas Edison
Isaac Newton
Eleanor Roosevelt
9. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Saul Bellow
Cleaning your house
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare
10. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
John F. Kennedy
It just gives.
Ronald Reagan
Henry David Thoreau
11. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Saul Bellow
Vince Lombardi
Oscar Wilde
12. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Pablo Picasso
Take it.
Benjamin Franklin
William Shakespeare
13. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Victor Hugo
Winston Churchill
Wilson Mizner
14. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
William Shakespeare
James Branch Cabell
Scott Adams
H. M. Warner
15. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Veni -
Alexander Pope
Mark Twain
Is to be one.
16. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
So - first of all -
With what you have -
G. K. Chesterton
George Orwell
17. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
But it does rhyme.
Present
Theodore Roosevelt
Jonathan Swift
18. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
Jonathan Swift
Jimi Hendrix
Samuel Adams
19. Hope is a waking dream.
And men and dogs
Niels Bohr
Aristotle
Woody Allen
20. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Mark Twain
Behind the lines -
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
21. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Phyllis Diller
22. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.
Voltaire
Pablo Picasso
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
23. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
All over again.
Christopher Morley
When people die
To utter
24. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
There is no art.
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Isaac Asimov
25. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newton
Be kind -
In its worst state -
Mark Twain
26. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
Samuel Adams
Ronald Reagan
Laozi
An eye for an eye
27. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Dwight Eisenhower
Stephen Hawking
I - at any rate -
28. 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. Thats relativity.
Isaac Asimov
Douglas Adams
Albert Einstein
Ronald Reagan
29. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
Saint Augustine
Theodore Roosevelt
Marcel Proust
Think for yourself.
30. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Charles Darwin
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Sam Brown
31. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
C. S. Lewis
As they are seized.
Albert Einstein
32. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Robert Frost
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
In its worst state -
33. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Oscar Wilde
John Wayne
Eleanor Roosevelt
Laozi
34. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.
Thomas Jefferson
T. S. Eliot
When people die
George Orwell
35. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Yogi Berra
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Peter Drucker
36. 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.
James Branch Cabell
Is fear itself
Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo da Vinci
37. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
This above all
Except temptation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Edison
38. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.
C. S. Lewis
Naked people have
Mahatma Gandhi
John Milton
39. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____
Than reason.
Mark Twain
George Orwell
Mother Teresa
40. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Yogi Berra
But it does rhyme.
Bertrand Russell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
41. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
John F. Kennedy
It is hard to fail -
Wisdom begins
There is no art.
42. Wisdom begins in wonder.
Isaac Asimov
Rightly considered.
Winston Churchill
Socrates
43. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____
Is showing up.
Woody Allen
Like fire -
It tolls for thee.
44. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
In the gym -
Plato
William Shakespeare
George Orwell
45. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
Speak softly
46. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Winning is a habit.
Margaret Mead
Joseph Stalin
Oscar Wilde
47. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.
Is fear itself
To find yourself -
Winston Churchill
Rita Mae Brown
48. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Benjamin Franklin
49. 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.
Groucho Marx
Oscar Wilde
What! You too?
George Bernard Shaw
50. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
As they are seized.
Fears this is true.
Dave Barry
Aldous Huxley