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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. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Woody Allen
Jimi Hendrix
G. K. Chesterton
Woody Allen
2. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
And a pile of junk.
Thomas Jefferson
Mel Brooks
Groucho Marx
3. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
In wonder.
Margaret Mead
Mother Teresa
Joseph Stalin
4. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Albert Einstein
Winston Churchill
It is force!
All great truths
5. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.
Mother Teresa
Oscar Wilde
Scott Adams
C.A.R. Hoare
6. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
George S. Patton
An unexamined life
7. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Aristotle
Take it.
Thomas Edison
Winston Churchill
8. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Ansel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
It was here first.
9. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Douglas Adams
Samuel Adams
Julius Caesar
10. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.
Bertrand Russell
Woody Allen
John F. Kennedy
Margaret Thatcher
11. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
And in that faith -
Joseph Stalin
12. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.
And in that faith -
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think;
Charles Darwin
13. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
Galileo Galilei
Winston Churchill
Plato
14. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Julius Caesar
Thomas Watson
William Shakespeare
Woody Allen
15. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Meet any hardship -
Sam Brown
Alan Kay
Yogi Berra
16. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare
Augustine
17. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
John Milton
Thomas Jefferson
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
18. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.
Marcel Proust
Henry David Thoreau
Steve Wozniak
Napoleon Bonaparte
19. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
William Shakespeare
Its inherent virtue
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
20. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Is fear itself
Socrates
Will Rogers
Mark Twain
21. All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Abraham Lincoln
You may delay -
Winston Churchill
22. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Mother Teresa
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Einstein
Yogi Berra
23. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____
Samuel Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Enemy to none.
24. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Will Rogers
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
25. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
George Bernard Shaw
Henry David Thoreau
Trust a few -
C. S. Lewis
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!
Dave Barry
Woody Allen
Gobble their food -
Mark Twain
27. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Calvin Coolidge
Where the spirit
Mother Teresa
Mark Twain
28. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Albert Einstein
C. S. Lewis
Benjamin Franklin
Eleanor Roosevelt
29. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Samuel Adams
Theodore Roosevelt
Vince Lombardi
Henry David Thoreau
30. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Kennedy
Jimi Hendrix
John Donne
31. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.
Proves nothing.
Louis Pasteur
Niels Bohr
Winning is a habit.
32. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.
William Shakespeare
There is no art.
Will Rogers
Women and cats
33. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.
Trust a few -
Ansel Adams
Richard P. Feynman
It was here first.
34. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
It is force!
Vince Lombardi
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
35. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.
Tis dearness only
Theodore Roosevelt
Blaise Pascal
George S. Patton
36. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.
Money doesnt talk -
Sun Tzu
All great truths
Carl Sagan
37. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
Robert Heinlein
An unexamined life
Steven Wright
Proves nothing.
38. 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
Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche
Laozi
39. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.
Niels Bohr
Bertrand Russell
Trust a few -
Thomas Edison
40. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
William Shakespeare
Robert Frost
Familiar with few;
Thomas Jefferson
41. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Richard Nixon
Steve Wozniak
A new nation -
Mark Twain
42. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller
Calvin Coolidge
And the Macintosh -
Mark Twain
43. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
And in that faith -
Can be wonderful.
Mother Teresa
John Wayne
44. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____
George Santayana
Mark Twain
Muhammad Ali
Where you are.
45. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Richard P. Feynman
Jimi Hendrix
Ronald Reagan
Napoleon Bonaparte
46. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert Heinlein
Michael Jordan
Jesse Jackson
Benjamin Franklin
47. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Henry David Thoreau
Kurt Vonnegut
Peace begins
Familiar with few;
48. 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
It is hard to fail -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Calvin Coolidge
Its kind of fun
49. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
Aldous Huxley
Let us - to the end -
HenryFord
50. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____
Play on.
And the Macintosh -
Mahatma Gandhi
Bjarne Stroustrup
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