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Famous Quotes Trivia
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trivia
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Meet any hardship -
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
2. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Bob Dylan
Robert Frost
Kurt Vonnegut
Carl Sagan
3. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
Meet any hardship -
Therefore I am.
In wonder.
You see things;
4. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.
Bertrand Russell
Yogi Berra
In an hour of play
Albert Einstein
5. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____
Will Durant
W. Somerset Maugham
Is not Eureka!
As they are seized.
6. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.
Mother Teresa
Is showing up.
Albert Einstein
Without music -
7. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
Margaret Thatcher
8. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
The chief business
Louis Pasteur
Be kind -
William Blake
9. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Pablo Picasso
Speak softly
Dave Barry
Steven Wright
10. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
And the pessimist
H. G. Wells
Mark Twain
Mel Brooks
11. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Plato
Play on.
When people die
Thomas Paine
12. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.
Oscar Wilde
Yogi Berra
Its inherent virtue
Albert Einstein
13. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
H. G. Wells
The first principle
Ronald Reagan
You see things;
14. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Jonathan Swift
C. S. Lewis
To invent -
Albert Einstein
15. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Is busy dying.
Cleaning your house
Paul Harvey
Muhammad Ali
16. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.
Gobble their food -
Play on.
Patrick Henry
Winston Churchill
17. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
And men and dogs
Oscar Wilde
Present
Leonardo da Vinci
18. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.
Thomas Paine
Woody Allen
Voltaire
Lewis Carroll
19. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.
Adam Smith
Speak softly
Jesse Jackson
With what you have -
20. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.
Well done is better
Tis dearness only
John Lennon
Its inherent virtue
21. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
Is never accurate
An unexamined life
(I came -
Who the hell wants
22. 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.
Robert Frost
Mark Twain
Is never accurate
Henry David Thoreau
23. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Louis Pasteur
Till its over.
Aristotle
24. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Joseph Stalin
Aristotle
There are painters
Love all -
25. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.
Take it.
Muhammad Ali
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
26. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
John Lennon
George Orwell
Thomas Edison
An intolerable one.
27. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Roosevelt
Socrates
Ronald Reagan
28. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.
Winston Churchill
Saint Augustine
Charles Darwin
Dave Barry
29. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Ronald Reagan
George Orwell
To be the candle
Pablo Picasso
30. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Mark Twain
Its too crowded.
Thomas Jefferson
Get busy living -
31. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Carlin
Mark Twain
Isaac Newton
32. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Bertrand Russell
Benjamin Franklin
A single soul
Niels Bohr
33. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Douglas Adams
Its too crowded.
Theodore Roosevelt
Is business.
34. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Vidi -
Naked people have
Behind the lines -
Winston Churchill
35. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
John F. Kennedy
Terry Pratchett
36. 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.
Chance favors
Oscar Wilde
Bertrand Russell
William Blake
37. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Yogi Berra
Mark Twain
Wisdom begins
Is to invent it.
38. 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.
Except temptation.
Mother Teresa
Albert Einstein
Will Rogers
39. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight Eisenhower
Is showing up.
Calvin Coolidge
Samuel Adams
40. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
What is now proved
Woody Allen
Entire of itself;
Friedrich Nietzsche
41. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____
Is business.
I think;
In the gym -
It goes on.
42. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
Rene Descartes
Sam Brown
43. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Vici
Fools rush in
Douglas Adams
Terry Pratchett
44. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover
Ah! the farce.
Muhammad Ali
Henry David Thoreau
Sam Brown
45. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.
Samuel Adams
Peace at any price -
Richard Nixon
William Shakespeare
46. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Rightly considered.
Women and cats
Dwight Eisenhower
47. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
Epictetus
Will Rogers
Think for yourself.
Emily Dickinson
48. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Dorothy Parker
George S. Patton
49. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Trust a few -
Christopher Morley
Aristotle
Alexander Pope
50. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
John Donne
Naked people have
Alexander Pope
Victor Hugo
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