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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. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Oscar Wilde
Emily Dickinson
Tears and sweat.
George Bernard Shaw
2. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____
Leonardo da Vinci
Or Not guilty.
Mother Teresa
Bertrand Russell
3. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
Thomas Jefferson
Marcel Proust
Winston Churchill
Proves nothing.
4. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Peter Drucker
What! You too?
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
5. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Carl Sagan
Must - like men -
John Dalberg-Acton
Its kind of fun
6. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Thomas Paine
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
7. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Dorothy Parker
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
And men and dogs
8. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Twain
John Milton
Will Rogers
9. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Plato
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
10. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
I have not failed.
And you say Why?
With a smile.
George Orwell
11. 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.
Charles Darwin
Socrates
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
12. 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.
Calvin Coolidge
In an hour of play
Bertrand Russell
Oscar Wilde
13. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.
Cleaning your house
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Familiar with few;
14. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
As they are seized.
Francis Bacon
Is never accurate
Thomas Paine
15. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Thomas Watson
Albert Einstein
Margaret Thatcher
Socrates
16. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
God is a comedian
Leonardo da Vinci
Yogi Berra
Terry Pratchett
17. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
There are painters
It just gives.
The chief business
Mel Brooks
18. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Robert Kennedy
(I came -
As they are seized.
19. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Voltaire
Silence is golden
Aristotle
Winston Churchill
20. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Mark Twain
Julius Caesar
And men and dogs
It is hard to fail -
21. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Is to be one.
Its too crowded.
Muhammad Ali
Simplicity
22. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Theodore Roosevelt
Steven Wright
Oscar Wilde
23. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Aristotle
Mark Twain
Wilson Mizner
William Blake
24. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
It just gives.
Like philosophy -
Plato
Isaac Asimov
25. If music be the food of love - play on.
C. S. Lewis
I hate quotations.
William Shakespeare
When people laugh.
26. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln
John F. Kennedy
Mahatma Gandhi
Is never accurate
27. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Galileo Galilei
Plato
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
28. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
William Shakespeare
Is business.
Charles Darwin
29. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
John Wooden
Sting like a bee.
Blaise Pascal
Is not Eureka!
30. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
An eye for an eye
Thomas Jefferson
31. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.
Richard Nixon
Winning is a habit.
Charles Darwin
Isaac Asimov
32. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Winston Churchill
A new nation -
John Wooden
To find yourself -
33. Hope is a waking dream.
Voltaire
Aristotle
Muhammad Ali
I - at any rate -
34. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.
Mario Andretti
Socrates
Woody Allen
Winston Churchill
35. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Bertrand Russell
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dwight Eisenhower
Samuel Johnson
36. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.
Will Durant
Familiar with few;
Do - or do not.
Winston Churchill
37. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Aldous Huxley
Benjamin Franklin
38. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
And in that faith -
Albert Einstein
John F. Kennedy
Isaac Newton
39. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Do what you can -
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
40. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Terry Pratchett
And the Macintosh -
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
41. He not busy being born is busy dying.
H. G. Wells
Muhammad Ali
Bob Dylan
An unexamined life
42. 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
Patrick Henry
Like philosophy -
Socrates
43. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Henry David Thoreau
When people laugh.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Jefferson
44. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
John F. Kennedy
Douglas Adams
Saki
Pablo Picasso
45. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Socrates
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bertrand Russell
Thomas Edison
46. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.
Veni -
Kurt Vonnegut
Mark Twain
Let us - to the end -
47. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
I'm a Democrat!
Rudyard Kipling
Mark Twain
Will Rogers
48. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
Aristotle
Its kind of fun
Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
49. An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
Jimi Hendrix
50. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
It tolls for thee.
Thomas Paine
An intolerable one.