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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. ____ 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
C. S. Lewis
Every rocket fired -
Where you are.
Woody Allen
2. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Wilson Mizner
Abraham Lincoln
I saw -
Life is pleasant.
3. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Must - like men -
In fact they do so.
Laozi
Benjamin Franklin
4. 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
Terry Pratchett
Mark Twain
And the Macintosh -
Jimi Hendrix
5. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.
Mark Twain
All great truths
William Shakespeare
Douglas Adams
6. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.
Edith Wharton
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
In its worst state -
7. ____ 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
Cleaning your house
Isaac Newton
Patrick Henry
Isaac Asimov
8. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____
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9. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Bob Dylan
I conquered.)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
10. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____
John Wooden
Time
William Blake
All over again.
11. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Mother Teresa
George Bernard Shaw
Be more concerned
Well done is better
12. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Niels Bohr
Woody Allen
Jimi Hendrix
John Dalberg-Acton
13. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Like philosophy -
George Bernard Shaw
14. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Will Rogers
Mark Twain
Hope
Winston Churchill
15. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.
Albert Einstein
Socrates
There is no art.
Friedrich Nietzsche
16. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Is busy dying.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ronald Reagan
Henry David Thoreau
17. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Speak softly
In the gym -
Is Music
Is business.
18. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
I have not failed.
Alexander Pope
Thomas Edison
Thomas Paine
19. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.
Time
Mark Twain
Saul Bellow
The chief business
20. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____
Take it.
George Eliot
Lewis Carroll
Simplicity
21. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Like philosophy -
Dave Barry
George Santayana
Aristotle
22. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Vince Lombardi
Thomas Edison
Phyllis Diller
Margaret Mead
23. 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.
Ah! the farce.
Muhammad Ali
John F. Kennedy
Oscar Wilde
24. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Yogi Berra
Oscar Wilde
John Lennon
To invent -
25. ____ 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
Isaac Asimov
William Shakespeare
Adam Smith
Proves nothing.
26. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
An intolerable one.
Benjamin Franklin
Walt Disney
27. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____
Or Not guilty.
Robert Frost
In fact they do so.
George Bernard Shaw
28. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Darwin
Joseph Stalin
Calvin Coolidge
29. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Mark Twain
Scott Adams
He is richest
Mark Twain
30. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Take it.
Who the hell wants
Naked people have
31. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.
Mother Teresa
A witty saying
Thomas Edison
So - first of all -
32. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
33. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Groucho Marx
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Can be wonderful.
34. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Dwight Eisenhower
Isaac Asimov
Glory is fleeting -
Francis Bacon
35. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
Gobble their food -
What! You too?
In its worst state -
36. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
W. Somerset Maugham
Theodore Roosevelt
As they are seized.
37. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
Socrates
Bob Dylan
Entire of itself;
38. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.
John Dalberg-Acton
Thomas Edison
Andy Warhol
Time
39. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Steve Wozniak
Glory is fleeting -
Bertrand Russell
Will Rogers
40. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Napoleon Bonaparte
It was here first.
Winston Churchill
41. 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.
Ronald Reagan
Cleaning your house
Friedrich Nietzsche
Theodore Roosevelt
42. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Every rocket fired -
Present
Plato
43. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____
Edith Wharton
There is no art.
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
44. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Galileo Galilei
Mother Teresa
Or Not guilty.
Death is peaceful.
45. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Thomas Jefferson
Pablo Picasso
Socrates
Mark Twain
46. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
An intolerable one.
Thomas Edison
47. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____
This above all
Like fire -
Emily Dickinson
Or get busy dying.
48. True friends stab you in the front.
Gobble their food -
Lewis Carroll
Oscar Wilde
Steven Wright
49. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
Mel Brooks
Mother Teresa
Hope
Thomas Edison
50. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Charles Darwin
With what you have -
True friends
What! You too?