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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.
Plato
Bertrand Russell
It just gives.
Winning is a habit.
2. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Andy Warhol
Scott Adams
And a pile of junk.
Mother Teresa
3. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____
Thomas Jefferson
Glory is fleeting -
When people laugh.
Do what you can -
4. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Always do right--
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woody Allen
William Shakespeare
5. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Patrick Henry
Mark Twain
To invent -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
In an hour of play
George Orwell
Theodore Roosevelt
Hope
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
Mark Twain
Cleaning your house
Always do right--
I hate quotations.
8. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Napoleon Bonaparte
Get busy living -
9. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
Will Durant
Albert Einstein
Dwight Eisenhower
Its kind of fun
10. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
All great truths
Muhammad Ali
Albert Einstein
I hate quotations.
11. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
George Bernard Shaw
Decca Recording Co.
Woody Allen
Oscar Levant
12. 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.
Saki
Groucho Marx
Is fear itself
All great truths
13. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albert Einstein
Emily Dickinson
Pablo Picasso
14. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Leonardo da Vinci
And men and dogs
Yogi Berra
Steven Wright
15. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
Chance favors
Than he finds.
Wernher Von Braun
Friedrich Nietzsche
16. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.
Daniel Webster
Woody Allen
Oscar Wilde
Linus Torvalds
17. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that
And the Macintosh -
Yogi Berra
Saul Bellow
(I came -
18. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Will Rogers
Patrick Henry
Theodore Roosevelt
Phyllis Diller
19. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
Do what you can -
Like art...
Its inherent virtue
Muhammad Ali
20. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Pablo Picasso
Peter Drucker
John F. Kennedy
Except temptation.
21. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Rightly considered.
Trust a few -
C.A.R. Hoare
Success is going
22. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
George Orwell
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
In fact they do so.
23. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Silence is golden
Albert Einstein
Ah! the farce.
Steve Wozniak
24. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
Scott Adams
Socrates
It aint over
HenryFord
25. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Henry David Thoreau
Talent will not;
With what you have -
Peace at any price -
26. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Mae West
Robert Oppenheimer
Patrick Henry
Woody Allen
27. A witty saying proves nothing.
Muhammad Ali
Voltaire
Thomas Aquinas
Till its over.
28. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
George Bernard Shaw
Robert Kennedy
William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill
29. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Mother Teresa
30. 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. _____
Calvin Coolidge
Aristotle
Except temptation.
Thats relativity.
31. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
Mark Twain
And the pessimist
Patrick Henry
With a smile.
32. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Theodore Roosevelt
Samuel Johnson
William Shakespeare
Rudyard Kipling
33. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
Alexander Pope
All over again.
Yogi Berra
John Donne
34. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
George S. Patton
Benjamin Franklin
Albert Einstein
Jimi Hendrix
35. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
Margaret Thatcher
And I sayWhy not?
Mother Teresa
Woody Allen
36. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Jesse Jackson
George Carlin
Pablo Picasso
Socrates
37. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
Dwight Eisenhower
The first principle
Winston Churchill
Voltaire
38. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____
Socrates
Benjamin Franklin
It goes on.
Theodore Roosevelt
39. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
William Blake
Be kind -
40. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Its too crowded.
Yogi Berra
A new nation -
Let us - to the end -
41. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Mark Twain
Walt Disney
Its kind of fun
Lewis Carroll
42. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Mark Twain
Alexander Pope
Mark Twain
Fears this is true.
43. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Jesse Jackson
Rudyard Kipling
44. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Bertrand Russell
H. G. Wells
Charles Darwin
45. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato
Or get busy dying.
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
46. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Henry David Thoreau
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
47. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
Blaise Pascal
Francis Bacon
John F. Kennedy
Get busy living -
48. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Mark Twain
What! You too?
But wisdom listens.
Is showing up.
49. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Abraham Lincoln
Mario Andretti
Jesse Jackson
50. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
Its inherent virtue
Behind the lines -
Always do right--