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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Time makes more converts than reason.
Winston Churchill
Thomas Paine
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson
2. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
T. S. Eliot
Voltaire
Let us - to the end -
Friedrich Nietzsche
3. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____
Keep going.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Its inherent virtue
4. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
H. G. Wells
To find yourself -
Benjamin Franklin
5. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
Calvin Coolidge
Paul Harvey
Bertrand Russell
6. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
In the gym -
Mark Twain
Oscar Levant
7. It aint over till its over.
Tears and sweat.
Ronald Reagan
Isaac Newton
Yogi Berra
8. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.
Mark Twain
Is not Eureka!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Paine
9. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Twain
Winston Churchill
Henry David Thoreau
10. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Rita Mae Brown
William Shakespeare
Dave Barry
Steven Wright
11. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
An unexamined life
Stephen King
Oscar Wilde
12. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.
John Milton
Winston Churchill
Friedrich Nietzsche
Plato
13. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
Aristotle
Its kind of fun
Wilson Mizner
Oscar Wilde
14. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Muhammad Ali
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight Eisenhower
Take it.
15. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.
In the gym -
Mark Twain
Samuel Adams
William Shakespeare
16. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____
Is to invent it.
William Blake
Winston Churchill
Yogi Berra
17. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.
C. S. Lewis
Winston Churchill
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
18. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
George Orwell
Thomas Watson
William Shakespeare
Than well said.
19. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
Its kind of fun
Bertrand Russell
Jimi Hendrix
Napoleon Bonaparte
20. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe
Isaac Newton
Ronald Reagan
What! You too?
Calvin Coolidge
21. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
Thomas Edison
Margaret Thatcher
Be more concerned
Aristotle
22. I can resist everything except temptation.
Get busy living -
Proves nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Winston Churchill
23. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Or get busy dying.
Will Durant
Robert Frost
Oscar Wilde
24. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Leonardo da Vinci
John Donne
Ernest Hemingway
A single soul
25. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.
Fears this is true.
Theodore Roosevelt
Is fear itself
Benjamin Franklin
26. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!
Is another matter.
What! You too?
Yoda
There is no try.
27. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.
Steve Wozniak
Samuel Johnson
Aldous Huxley
In the gym -
28. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
John F. Kennedy
Mother Teresa
Thomas Paine
Benjamin Franklin
29. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
Benjamin Franklin
Rightly considered.
Let us - to the end -
Oscar Wilde
30. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Mark Twain
John Dalberg-Acton
True friends
31. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Always do right--
Ronald Reagan
I have not failed.
George Washington
32. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
George S. Patton
Is to be one.
Socrates
Robert Kennedy
33. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Like fire -
Do what you can -
Leonardo da Vinci
Henry David Thoreau
34. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Saint Augustine
Patrick Henry
Eleanor Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
35. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Voltaire
And a pile of junk.
Kurt Vonnegut
Walt Disney
36. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
And the pessimist
Mark Twain
Socrates
Plato
37. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Stephen King
Dwight Eisenhower
Napoleon Bonaparte
Francis Bacon
38. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Mark Twain
Leonardo da Vinci
John F. Kennedy
Joseph Stalin
39. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____
Samuel Adams
Thats relativity.
Saint Augustine
Friedrich Nietzsche
40. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Winston Churchill
Muhammad Ali
The prepared mind.
41. 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.
Mother Teresa
Yogi Berra
God is a comedian
Bertrand Russell
42. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
Isaac Asimov
Galileo Galilei
Kahlil Gibran
43. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Mark Twain
Galileo Galilei
Benjamin Franklin
Oscar Wilde
44. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
But it does rhyme.
Leonardo da Vinci
Death is peaceful.
Mark Twain
45. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that
Douglas Adams
Walt Disney
Albert Einstein
John F. Kennedy
46. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Bob Dylan
George Orwell
Saki
All great truths
47. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.
In an hour of play
This above all
Margaret Thatcher
The first principle
48. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the lines -
Theodore Roosevelt
Bob Dylan
49. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Patrick Henry
The chief business
Ronald Reagan
Must - like men -
50. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
To know everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
Than he finds.