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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali
With a smile.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
2. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Proves nothing.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Eleanor Roosevelt
3. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
T. S. Eliot
Aristotle
Its too crowded.
Francis Bacon
4. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
William Shakespeare
Death is peaceful.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Victor Hugo
5. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.
Socrates
Robert Oppenheimer
Winston Churchill
Do what you can -
6. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Women and cats
Bertrand Russell
Is to invent it.
Winston Churchill
7. Maybe this world is another planets hell.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Aldous Huxley
Mark Twain
Knowledge speaks -
8. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.
Winston Churchill
Familiar with few;
C.A.R. Hoare
Groucho Marx
9. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Galileo Galilei
Dwight Eisenhower
Vince Lombardi
Mark Twain
10. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____
Therefore I am.
Leonardo da Vinci
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
11. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Thomas Edison
But it does rhyme.
Winston Churchill
12. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.
And men and dogs
Michael Jordan
Mark Twain
George S. Patton
13. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Plato
Or Not guilty.
Bob Dylan
Take it.
14. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Paul Harvey
Let us - to the end -
Thomas Paine
Carl Sagan
15. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
John Donne
16. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.
It aint over
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
17. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.
Winston Churchill
Is business.
Mother Teresa
Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.
Margaret Mead
Steven Wright
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
19. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.
Mother Teresa
Socrates
Mother Teresa
Theodore Roosevelt
20. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Thomas Jefferson
George Bernard Shaw
W. Somerset Maugham
21. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Is fear itself
Veni -
Alexander Pope
Winston Churchill
22. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
Thomas Jefferson
Mark Twain
Jesse Jackson
23. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Winston Churchill
Is business.
To err is human;
24. 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.
Muhammad Ali
Richard Nixon
Bill Gates
Leonardo da Vinci
25. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Enemy to none.
Mel Brooks
John Wooden
Plato
26. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Alexander Pope
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
27. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Rich Cook
Charles Darwin
Socrates
HenryFord
28. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Mario Andretti
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Entire of itself;
29. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
(I came -
It swears.
Mark Twain
Where you are.
30. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Hope
Andy Warhol
William Blake
Thomas Paine
31. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
It swears.
The prepared mind.
Albert Einstein
32. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great
Isaac Asimov
Fools rush in
Isaac Newton
Terry Pratchett
33. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Aldous Huxley
Pablo Picasso
It tolls for thee.
Albert Einstein
34. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
G. K. Chesterton
Jack Handey
Winston Churchill
35. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____
Muhammad Ali
Is another matter.
Its inherent virtue
Mark Twain
36. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
George S. Patton
Andy Warhol
Bertrand Russell
37. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Jesse Jackson
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
38. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Bertrand Russell
Kahlil Gibran
Thomas Watson
Yogi Berra
39. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
Time
Yogi Berra
Or get busy dying.
40. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.
Money doesnt talk -
Henry David Thoreau
A single soul
H. G. Wells
41. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.
Niels Bohr
You may delay -
To utter
Benjamin Franklin
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.
William Blake
Augustine
Bjarne Stroustrup
Rudyard Kipling
43. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
In an hour of play
I hate quotations.
H. M. Warner
Will Durant
44. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
The chief business
Albert Einstein
Henry David Thoreau
Scott Adams
45. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
He is richest
Proves nothing.
Winston Churchill
Samuel Adams
46. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Jack Handey
Edith Wharton
An intolerable one.
George S. Patton
47. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Voltaire
To find yourself -
Kahlil Gibran
Oscar Wilde
48. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Winston Churchill
Eleanor Roosevelt
Oscar Wilde
C. S. Lewis
49. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Bill Gates
Mark Twain
Present
Mark Twain
50. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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.
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
There are painters
Religion
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