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Famous Quotes Trivia

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






2. 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.






3. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






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






5. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






6. ____ 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






7. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






8. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






9. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






10. 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.






11. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






12. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






13. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






14. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






15. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






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






17. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






18. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






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






20. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






21. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






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






23. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






24. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






25. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






26. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






27. To find yourself - think for yourself.






28. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






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






30. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






31. 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.






32. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






33. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






34. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






35. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






36. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






37. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






38. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






39. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






40. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






41. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






42. The chief business of the American people is business.






43. 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.






44. 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. Thats relativity.






45. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






46. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






47. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






48. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






49. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






50. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?







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