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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Play on.
Steve Wozniak
Albert Einstein
Thomas Watson
2. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
Knowledge speaks -
John F. Kennedy
Louis Pasteur
Michael Jordan
3. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____
All over again.
Winston Churchill
(I came -
As they are seized.
4. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
An unexamined life
Woody Allen
5. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.
Bertrand Russell
Than reason.
Jack Handey
Where you are.
6. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Till its over.
The prepared mind.
Its too crowded.
Patrick Henry
7. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Leonardo da Vinci
Dave Barry
Thomas Paine
Abraham Lincoln
8. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.
John F. Kennedy
Its kind of fun
It goes on.
C. S. Lewis
9. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
James Branch Cabell
Than he finds.
William Shakespeare
Ronald Reagan
10. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
Emily Dickinson
Leonardo da Vinci
William Blake
11. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Albert Einstein
Thomas Paine
Robert Frost
And in that faith -
12. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.
Without music -
Aldous Huxley
Winston Churchill
Bertrand Russell
13. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson
John Milton
Samuel Adams
Yogi Berra
14. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Edison
And the pessimist
15. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Julius Caesar
I think;
Blaise Pascal
Terry Pratchett
16. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert Heinlein
Robert Frost
Albert Einstein
Adam Smith
17. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
Theodore Roosevelt
Familiar with few;
Mother Teresa
George Eliot
18. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover
C. S. Lewis
William James
Napoleon Bonaparte
Henry David Thoreau
19. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
Till its over.
Scott Adams
Every rocket fired -
Will Rogers
20. 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.
Thomas Edison
Muhammad Ali
The first principle
Mark Twain
21. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Cleaning your house
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
Voltaire
22. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Mark Twain
Carl Sagan
Mel Brooks
Ernest Hemingway
23. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ronald Reagan
When people die
Oscar Wilde
24. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____
John F. Kennedy
I hate quotations.
Proves nothing.
Pablo Picasso
25. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.
When people die
Mark Twain
Or get busy dying.
Eleanor Roosevelt
26. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!
Do what you can -
Dave Barry
George Bernard Shaw
Be more concerned
27. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Decca Recording Co.
Tis dearness only
Speak softly
Charles Darwin
28. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Do wrong to none.
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
29. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
An unexamined life
Thomas Edison
Julius Caesar
Muhammad Ali
30. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Benjamin Franklin
Where the spirit
Sun Tzu
Tears and sweat.
31. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____
Dave Barry
Muhammad Ali
To know everything.
H. M. Warner
32. 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.
And the Macintosh -
Robert Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Bertrand Russell
33. 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.
Woody Allen
Winston Churchill
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
34. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Mark Twain
Tis dearness only
Patrick Henry
Winston Churchill
35. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt
John Lennon
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
36. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
Is another matter.
With the very best.
C.A.R. Hoare
Who the hell wants
37. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Religion
I saw -
Benjamin Franklin
Ronald Reagan
38. Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
Winning is a habit.
39. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.
Rita Mae Brown
Will Rogers
In wonder.
This above all
40. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Albert Einstein
George S. Patton
Tis dearness only
Daniel Webster
41. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Winston Churchill
Alexander Pope
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Therefore I am.
42. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.
Muhammad Ali
Women and cats
George Bernard Shaw
Theodore Roosevelt
43. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
George Eliot
Yogi Berra
And I sayWhy not?
John Milton
44. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Ronald Reagan
John Lennon
Gobble their food -
Thomas Edison
45. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
As they are seized.
Religion
Bjarne Stroustrup
Thomas Edison
46. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
Mark Twain
Francis Bacon
Samuel Adams
Alexander Pope
47. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Thomas Paine
Is never accurate
Thomas Paine
Oscar Wilde
48. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Ronald Reagan
Christopher Morley
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
49. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Get busy living -
Thomas Jefferson
Will Rogers
Walt Disney
50. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Robert Frost
Oscar Levant