WorksheetsFamous quotes throughout history (first 50)
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 21mins
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Barrack Obama
Albert Einstein
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
George H.W Bush
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
John McCain
He uses statistics as a drunk man uses lampposts --- for support rather than illumination.
Ernest Hemingway
Theodore Roosevelt
H.G Wells
Andrew Lang
Government has no other end than the preservation of property.
Benjamin Franklin
Voltaire
Rene Descartes
John Locke
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Elizabeth Warren
Bobcat Goldthwait
Al Gore
Bill Gates
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles De Gaulle
Adolf Hitler
Nikita Khrushchev
Yasser Arafat
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most prized possession --- their ignorance.
Jonathan Steinberg
Hendrik Van Loon
Edward Gibbon
Leopold von Ranke
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
Andrew Carnegie
Vince Lombardi
Thomas Edison
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Sinclair Lewis
Friedrich Nietzsche
H. L. Mencken
Theodore Dreiser
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Charlie Chaplin
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Marie Curie
The trouble with the world is that the people are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
Theodore Roosevelt
James Patterson
Voltaire
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.
Aristotle
Henry Thoreau
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Walt Whitman
Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the wrong side.
George S. Patton
Claude McDonald
Leonardo Da Vinci
Joe Montana
If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
Plato
Steve Jobs
Anatole France
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
Nostradamus
August Strindberg
Bob Dylan
William Shatner
A person always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J.P Morgan
Meryl Streep
Elton John
Mark Twain
Sometimes when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite your hand. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Daniel Boone
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Get-over yourself.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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Acknowledge, move on.
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E pur si muove (but it does move).
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Man is his own worst enemy.
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The Truth is out there.
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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.
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Believe the lie.
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Put all your eggs in one basket --- and watch that basket.
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Sometimes, I wonder if it's really me standing here.
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What is it is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
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-Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates gods by the dozen.
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Grade me! Grade me! Evaluate and rank me!
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Why put something in your mouth that you wouldn't hold in your hand?
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Reporter: What do you think of Western Civilization? (a) : I think it would be a very good idea.
Life is a sexually transmitted and terminal disease.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space: everything else is opinion.
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(a) 's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats--- more than one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
I have become comfortably numb.
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Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
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Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
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The things that cause all violence in human life: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without Sacrifice, politics without principle, and rights without responsibilities.
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What is history? Little more than a register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of men.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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I often think it odd that history should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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History teaches us that people have never learnt anything from history.
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