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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Mark Twain
He is richest
Saki
Isaac Newton
2. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.
Isaac Asimov
Speak softly
Winston Churchill
True friends
3. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
Aristotle
I - at any rate -
George S. Patton
4. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Is not Eureka!
Read only a page.
Death is peaceful.
Eleanor Roosevelt
5. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.
Voltaire
Its inherent virtue
Mother Teresa
Fears this is true.
6. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Alexander Pope
Thomas Jefferson
Will Rogers
It swears.
7. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.
Its kind of fun
Vince Lombardi
Leonardo da Vinci
Its inherent virtue
8. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Aldous Huxley
Woody Allen
Always do right--
9. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Winston Churchill
George Santayana
Life is pleasant.
John F. Kennedy
10. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
Oscar Levant
Is to invent it.
There are no facts -
Yogi Berra
11. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
C. S. Lewis
12. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
Always do right--
George Washington
Religion
13. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
I think;
Charles Darwin
Woody Allen
True friends
14. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.
John Dalberg-Acton
Mark Twain
Must - like men -
Charles Darwin
15. 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.
Get busy living -
Bob Dylan
Ronald Reagan
Tom Clancy
16. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.
Rich Cook
Hope
Maybe this world
Where you are.
17. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
So - first of all -
Oscar Wilde
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
18. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
George Washington
Socrates
Success is going
Benjamin Franklin
19. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
In wonder.
John F. Kennedy
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Jefferson
20. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.
Is business.
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
Daniel Webster
21. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.
Paul Harvey
Friedrich Nietzsche
Isaac Asimov
Rudyard Kipling
22. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Vince Lombardi
Where the spirit
Like art...
Thomas Watson
23. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Albert Einstein
Linus Torvalds
Michael Jordan
Theodore Roosevelt
24. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Religion
Mark Twain
Robert Kennedy
Muhammad Ali
25. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Paine
Let us - to the end -
Benjamin Franklin
26. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Albert Einstein
Theodore Roosevelt
Knowledge speaks -
Oscar Wilde
27. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Mark Twain
William James
George Orwell
Carl Sagan
28. What is now proved was once only imagined.
Vince Lombardi
William Blake
I - at any rate -
Without music -
29. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Louis Pasteur
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
Walt Disney
30. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.
John Wooden
Patrick Henry
Albert Einstein
Dave Barry
31. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
Thats relativity.
Thomas Aquinas
Abraham Lincoln
Henry David Thoreau
32. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.
Aristotle
An eye for an eye
Mother Teresa
G. K. Chesterton
33. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
This above all
Sun Tzu
34. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Oscar Wilde
Life is pleasant.
Tears and sweat.
I think;
35. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
Mark Twain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
Mother Teresa
Hope
Charles Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
37. A witty saying proves nothing.
And a pile of junk.
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
Voltaire
38. 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. _____
Walt Disney
Is Music
Thats relativity.
Stephen King
39. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.
I think;
W. Somerset Maugham
With a smile.
Vince Lombardi
40. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.
To be the candle
Mark Twain
Peter Drucker
Thomas Jefferson
41. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____
Mother Teresa
And I sayWhy not?
Saint Augustine
Winston Churchill
42. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
And a pile of junk.
George Orwell
To utter
Time
43. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Rightly considered.
Muhammad Ali
Plato
Therefore I am.
44. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Well done is better
Oscar Wilde
45. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
Thomas Paine
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
Vince Lombardi
46. Do - or do not. There is no try.
Do - or do not.
Yoda
G. K. Chesterton
Money doesnt talk -
47. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Francis Bacon
Dwight Eisenhower
Rich Cook
Mark Twain
48. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.
Steve Wozniak
Jonathan Swift
Ronald Reagan
Pablo Picasso
49. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
Makes more converts
Fears this is true.
Henry David Thoreau
With a smile.
50. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan
Rudyard Kipling
Women and cats
Socrates