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Famous Quotes Trivia

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1. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






2. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






3. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






4. If you are going through hell - keep going.






5. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






6. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






7. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






8. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






9. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






10. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






11. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






12. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






13. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






14. ____ 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






15. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






16. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






17. There are no facts - only interpretations.






18. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






19. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






20. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






21. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






22. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






23. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






24. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






25. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






26. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






27. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






28. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






29. Aristotle said: Hope _____






30. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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31. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






32. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






33. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






34. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






35. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






36. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






37. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






38. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






39. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk






40. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






41. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






42. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






43. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






44. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






45. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






46. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






47. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.






48. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






49. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






50. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.