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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
With the very best.
Than reason.
Muhammad Ali
Sting like a bee.
2. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
C. S. Lewis
Alexander Pope
Plato
George Orwell
3. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Winston Churchill
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dave Barry
Plato
4. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
In fact they do so.
Winston Churchill
Is not Eureka!
Leonardo da Vinci
5. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Wisdom begins
Than he finds.
Albert Einstein
In wonder.
6. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Pablo Picasso
Saint Augustine
Marcel Proust
Benjamin Franklin
7. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Chance favors
Peace at any price -
8. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____
Is Music
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
William Shakespeare
9. 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.
Winston Churchill
Woody Allen
Pablo Picasso
Robert Heinlein
10. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Is a waking dream.
Dave Barry
Tis dearness only
Bertrand Russell
11. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
Phyllis Diller
Alan Kay
Stephen Hawking
I think;
12. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
William Shakespeare
HenryFord
And in that faith -
13. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Mother Teresa
Julius Caesar
Keep going.
A witty saying
14. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Theodore Roosevelt
Augustine
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tears and sweat.
15. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.
Richard Nixon
Chance favors
Jimi Hendrix
Steve Wozniak
16. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Albert Einstein
Play on.
Joseph Stalin
Kurt Vonnegut
17. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
To utter
Take it.
Thomas Edison
In an hour of play
18. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Than he finds.
To find yourself -
Henry David Thoreau
Pablo Picasso
19. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.
HenryFord
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
20. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Carl Sagan
Mark Twain
Charles Darwin
21. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Yogi Berra
Terry Pratchett
Napoleon Bonaparte
And the Universe
22. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Cleaning your house
And men and dogs
Aristotle
Theodore Roosevelt
23. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Winston Churchill
Present
But blood - toil -
George Orwell
24. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.
Douglas Adams
Life is pleasant.
Laozi
Robert Frost
25. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Margaret Mead
Makes more converts
Augustine
George Carlin
26. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.
Bertrand Russell
And men and dogs
Richard Nixon
Is Music
27. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____
Emily Dickinson
John F. Kennedy
Calvin Coolidge
Is showing up.
28. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Muhammad Ali
Emily Dickinson
Douglas Adams
Abraham Lincoln
29. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
Daniel Webster
H. G. Wells
Jack Handey
30. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
So - first of all -
Stephen King
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Paine
31. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Yogi Berra
Jack Handey
Saint Augustine
32. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
Is to invent it.
With what you have -
Let us - to the end -
33. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers
Margaret Mead
Is Music
It goes on.
34. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Is not Eureka!
George Eliot
Like art...
In wonder.
35. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.
Julius Caesar
Leonardo da Vinci
Dave Barry
Get busy living -
36. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Enemy to none.
Sun Tzu
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
37. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
C.A.R. Hoare
Pablo Picasso
38. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
You may delay -
Where you are.
Andy Warhol
W. Somerset Maugham
39. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Do what you can -
George Orwell
Dave Barry
Victor Hugo
40. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
Like art...
So - first of all -
41. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Fools rush in
Death is peaceful.
Mark Twain
In wonder.
42. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Mark Twain
Is to invent it.
Saul Bellow
Woody Allen
43. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Fools rush in
He is richest
44. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
Walt Disney
To utter
Leonardo da Vinci
Adam Smith
45. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.
I'm a Democrat!
Money doesnt talk -
Than reason.
To utter
46. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.
Winston Churchill
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rita Mae Brown
Present
47. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Must - like men -
Vidi -
Mark Twain
Entire of itself;
48. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Yogi Berra
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Heinlein
Dave Barry
49. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Ronald Reagan
Albert Einstein
Henry David Thoreau
Where you are.
50. Hope is a waking dream.
Thomas Jefferson
Winston Churchill
Aristotle
Thomas Watson