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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
George Bernard Shaw
Louis Pasteur
John F. Kennedy
Play on.
2. 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
Mark Twain
To be the candle
William Shakespeare
3. He is richest who is content with the least.
Socrates
Muhammad Ali
Lewis Carroll
Albert Einstein
4. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Woody Allen
Like philosophy -
5. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Success is going
Be more concerned
Albert Einstein
6. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
John Donne
Saint Augustine
William Shakespeare
Mother Teresa
7. Peace begins with a smile.
Abraham Lincoln
Patrick Henry
Mother Teresa
Woody Allen
8. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Walt Disney
Mae West
Mark Twain
9. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Henry David Thoreau
John Wayne
John Milton
Aristotle
10. 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.
Veni -
Oscar Wilde
Behind the lines -
Samuel Adams
11. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Knowledge speaks -
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
C. S. Lewis
12. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Get busy living -
Mother Teresa
John F. Kennedy
Dave Barry
13. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Stephen Hawking
Woody Allen
Charles Darwin
Vince Lombardi
14. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Groucho Marx
You see things;
Carl Sagan
Mother Teresa
15. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.
Douglas Adams
Money doesnt talk -
William Shakespeare
Epictetus
16. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Hope
Yogi Berra
Oscar Wilde
H. M. Warner
17. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
Talent will not;
Where you are.
Saint Augustine
With a smile.
18. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Richard P. Feynman
When people die
A witty saying
19. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Mark Twain
Bertrand Russell
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Blake
20. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
Is to be one.
True friends
Dave Barry
21. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
But time will not.
Death is peaceful.
Kahlil Gibran
It is force!
22. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Can be wonderful.
Woody Allen
Play on.
Louis Pasteur
23. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Saul Bellow
Love all -
T. S. Eliot
Proves nothing.
24. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Talent will not;
Socrates
25. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin
Rightly considered.
Muhammad Ali
With what you have -
26. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
Simplicity
George Carlin
Keep going.
Do - or do not.
27. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
Or Not guilty.
But wisdom listens.
Where you are.
Mark Twain
28. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.
Simplicity
Socrates
Mark Twain
Death is peaceful.
29. Hope is a waking dream.
Thomas Jefferson
Aristotle
Jesse Jackson
In fact they do so.
30. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
You may delay -
Paul Harvey
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
31. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.
Charles Darwin
Chance favors
George Bernard Shaw
Muhammad Ali
32. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Paine
The first principle
33. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Tom Clancy
With the very best.
Thomas Paine
It is force!
34. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Galileo Galilei
Charles Darwin
Glory is fleeting -
Every rocket fired -
35. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.
Silence is golden
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
George Bernard Shaw
36. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
Plato
I hate quotations.
Carl Sagan
Eleanor Roosevelt
37. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.
Thomas Edison
William Shakespeare
Thomas Jefferson
Yogi Berra
38. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
Mae West
With the very best.
Theodore Roosevelt
Plato
39. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Than reason.
Sam Brown
Thomas Paine
Like fire -
40. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Carl Sagan
Plato
Yogi Berra
Silence is golden
41. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Let us - to the end -
Do wrong to none.
Theodore Roosevelt
Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. Money doesnt talk - it swears.
Bob Dylan
It is hard to fail -
Plato
John F. Kennedy
43. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Mark Twain
Thomas Paine
Ronald Reagan
44. The chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge
Fears this is true.
Pablo Picasso
John Wooden
45. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.
Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Phyllis Diller
Lewis Carroll
46. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____
Albert Einstein
To err is human;
To know everything.
Well done is better
47. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____
Can be wonderful.
I have not failed.
Winston Churchill
George Orwell
48. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Than well said.
Mark Twain
All over again.
Robert Oppenheimer
49. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Keep going.
William Shakespeare
Vince Lombardi
50. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Plato
God is a comedian
Samuel Johnson
Christopher Morley