| "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven" is a sentiment from this Milton epic |
<i>Paradise Lost</i> |
200 |
April 4, 2017 |
| In a 1934 speech, this Italian dictator said, "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty" |
Mussolini |
400 |
April 4, 2017 |
| In 1996 Bill Clinton told the country, "I still believe in a place called" this, "a place called America" |
Hope |
600 |
April 4, 2017 |
| This director told Francois Truffaut, "What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out" |
Alfred Hitchcock |
800 |
April 4, 2017 |
| From his "Analects": "To go too far is as bad as not to go far enough" |
Confucius |
1000 |
April 4, 2017 |
| On June 26, 1963 he declared, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin" |
John F. Kennedy |
200 |
March 27, 2012 |
| After a scandal, this line entered baseball lore, though Mr. Jackson said he never heard those words |
"Say it ain\'t so" |
600 |
March 27, 2012 |
| In 1944 he said, "I have returned, by the grace of almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil" |
General MacArthur |
800 |
March 27, 2012 |
| Winston Churchill said this Secretary of State under Eisenhower was a "bull who carries his China shop with him" |
John Foster Dulles |
1000 |
March 27, 2012 |
| "Bartlett's" says that around 1900, upon seeing an imitation of herself, she said, "We are not amused" |
Queen Victoria |
|
March 27, 2012 |
| His "Divine Comedy": "All hope abandon, ye who enter here!" |
Dante |
200 |
January 5, 2012 |
| From Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan": "I can resist everything except" this |
temptation |
400 |
January 5, 2012 |
| Karl Marx: this "is the opium of the people" |
religion |
600 |
January 5, 2012 |
| From "Walden": "the mass of men lead lives of quiet" this |
desperation |
800 |
January 5, 2012 |
| John Adams at the Boston Massacre trials: these "are stubborn things" |
facts |
1000 |
January 5, 2012 |
| In 2003, the 50th anniversary of his climb, he said, "I'm not very happy about the future of Mount Everest" |
Sir Edmund Hillary |
200 |
November 25, 2008 |
| Asked if he had anything to declare on his first visit to the U.S. in 1882, this wit said, "Nothing but my genius" |
Oscar Wilde |
400 |
November 25, 2008 |
| In "Notes on the State of Virginia", he wrote, "Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God" |
Thomas Jefferson |
600 |
November 25, 2008 |
| When this Carthaginian left the foe recover, a friend said, "You know how to win a victory...but not how to use it" |
Hannibal |
800 |
November 25, 2008 |
| In McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, this Chief Justice wrote, "The power to tax involves to destroy" |
John Marshall |
1000 |
November 25, 2008 |
| According to the proverb, this "loves company" |
misery |
200 |
May 26, 2008 |
| Henry Kissinger said this "is the ultimate aphrodisiac" |
power |
400 |
May 26, 2008 |
| In the King James Version of John 3:16, "God so loved the world, that he gave" this |
his only begotten son |
600 |
May 26, 2008 |
| In an old saying, this Roman person "must be above suspicion" |
Caesar\'s wife |
800 |
May 26, 2008 |
| C.S. Lewis wrote that this, from the Latin for "pure", "is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues" |
chastity |
1000 |
May 26, 2008 |
| In 1952, after being relieved of command in Korea, he said, "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it" |
(Douglas) MacArthur |
200 |
April 9, 2008 |
| Winston Churchill said it's good for the uneducated "to read books of quotations." This one "is an admirable work" |
<i>Bartlett\'s</i> |
400 |
April 9, 2008 |
| After losing the heavyweight title to Gene Tunney in 1926, he told his wife, "Honey, I just forgot to duck" |
(Jack) Dempsey |
600 |
April 9, 2008 |
| In April 1974 this kidnapped heiress announced, "This is Tania... I'm a soldier in the People's Army" |
Patricia Hearst |
800 |
April 9, 2008 |
| In 1975 she commented on a 1955 event by saying, "My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work" |
Rosa Parks |
1000 |
April 9, 2008 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith said these "are indispensable when you don't want to do anything"--there's one in the boardroom at 2:30 |
meetings |
200 |
January 15, 2007 |
| Antoine de Rivarol said, "What is not clear is not" this language |
French |
400 |
January 15, 2007 |
| In a saying attributed to the Duke of Wellington, this battle "was won on the playing fields of Eton" |
Waterloo |
600 |
January 15, 2007 |
| Jean-Luc Godard said, "Photography is truth, and" this "is truth 24 times a second" |
film (or cinema) |
800 |
January 15, 2007 |
| "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", wrote Horace, "It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for" this |
one\'s country |
1000 |
January 15, 2007 |
| "You can't fool all of the people all of the time" has been attributed to P.T. Barnum & to this president |
Abraham Lincoln |
200 |
June 23, 2005 |
| This Yankees manager who died in 1975 once remarked "Most people my age are dead" |
Casey Stengel |
400 |
June 23, 2005 |
| Ironically, on April 3, 1968 he said, "I've seen the promised land" & "I'm happy tonight... I'm not fearing any man" |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
600 |
June 23, 2005 |
| An inspiring story by him says, "And you will succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)" |
Dr. Seuss |
800 |
June 23, 2005 |
| "But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth", he wrote in "Man and Superman" |
George Bernard Shaw |
1000 |
June 23, 2005 |
| In his 1748 work "Advice to a Young Tradesman" he wrote, "Remember that time is money" |
Benjamin Franklin |
100 |
February 23, 2001 |
| "I'll resk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in" this "county" |
Calaveras County |
200 |
February 23, 2001 |
| Speaking at a year 2000 ceremony, this 96-year-old senator said, "Honey, I was around for Y1K" |
Strom Thurmond |
300 |
February 23, 2001 |
| Patrick Henry told the House of Burgesses, "Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First" this person |
Oliver Cromwell |
400 |
February 23, 2001 |
| "All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end" is a line from this 1726 work |
<i>Gulliver\'s Travels</i> |
500 |
February 23, 2001 |
| On April 15, 1865 Edwin Stanton said this man "belongs to the ages" |
Abraham Lincoln |
100 |
December 31, 1998 |
| In August 1997 Steve Jobs told him via cell phone, "Thank You. The world's a better place" |
Bill Gates |
200 |
December 31, 1998 |
| In 1974 he said, "I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president" |
Gerald Ford |
300 |
December 31, 1998 |
| In July 1997 CNN touted it as "the little rover that could" |
<i>Sojourner</i> |
400 |
December 31, 1998 |
| In 1903 he reportedly said, "Damn the law! I want the canal built" |
Theodore Roosevelt |
500 |
December 31, 1998 |
| Napoleon said, "The history of" this Italian city "is the history of the world" |
Rome |
100 |
December 3, 1997 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes said that "He serves his party best who serves" this "best" |
His country |
200 |
December 3, 1997 |
| "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" |
It might have been |
300 |
December 3, 1997 |
| "Poor Richard's Almanack" says, "To lengthen thy life, lessen" these |
Meals |
400 |
December 3, 1997 |
| Of her 1962 novel "Ship of Fools" she said, "I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul" |
Katherine Anne Porter |
500 |
December 3, 1997 |
| He cried, "Sic Semper Tyrannis! The South is avenged!" at Ford's Theater |
John Wilkes Booth |
100 |
July 15, 1997 |
| On seeing the valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1847, he said, "This is the place!" |
Brigham Young |
200 |
July 15, 1997 |
| On toppling Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, she said, "I'm sure no one ever thought it would happen" |
Corazon Aquino |
300 |
July 15, 1997 |
| He's credited with the remark "L' etat C'est Moi", "I am the state" |
Louis XIV |
400 |
July 15, 1997 |
| Victor Cousin wrote, "We need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake" & this |
Art for art\'s sake |
500 |
July 15, 1997 |
| This Spanish cubist said, "I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time" |
Pablo Picasso |
100 |
May 13, 1997 |
| This "True Grit" star advised actors, "Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much" |
John Wayne |
200 |
May 13, 1997 |
| This Swiss psychiatrist said the worst problems "can never be solved but only outgrown" |
Carl Jung |
300 |
May 13, 1997 |
| In 1875 this church founder wrote, "Jesus...was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe" |
Mary Baker Eddy |
400 |
May 13, 1997 |
| "I will make you shorter by a head" was one of this Tudor queen's favorite sayings |
Elizabeth I |
500 |
May 13, 1997 |
| Some credit college coach Red Sanders with saying this "Isn't everything, it's the only thing" |
Winning |
100 |
April 9, 1997 |
| William Cowper wrote this is "The very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor" |
Variety |
200 |
April 9, 1997 |
| First name of the girl who asked the Sun newspaper in 1897, "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?" |
Virginia |
300 |
April 9, 1997 |
| On July 21, 1969 newspapers quoted his "The Eagle Has Landed" |
Neil Armstrong |
400 |
April 9, 1997 |
| She's usually credited with the 18th century quote, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" |
Marie Antoinette ("Let them eat cake") |
|
April 9, 1997 |
| "Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are" this is attributed to Sir James Dewar |
Open |
100 |
January 9, 1997 |
| Scottish-born steel magnate who wrote, "Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends" |
Andrew Carnegie |
200 |
January 9, 1997 |
| Beatrix Potter wrote, "Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were..." these |
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail & Peter |
300 |
January 9, 1997 |
| He told the manager of his Chicago department store, "Give the lady what she wants!" |
Marshall Field |
400 |
January 9, 1997 |
| In "Ben Hur" he wrote, "A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune" |
Lew Wallace |
500 |
January 9, 1997 |
| Ernest Newman called this jazz "Duke" "A Harlem Dionysus drunk on bad bootleg liquor" |
Duke Ellington |
100 |
November 4, 1996 |
| Robert Frost wrote that "A poem...begins as a lump in" this |
your throat |
200 |
November 4, 1996 |
| Andrew Johnson said, "Honest conviction is my courage;" this document "is my guide" |
the Constitution |
300 |
November 4, 1996 |
| In "The Red Badge of Courage", this author called war "the blood-swollen god" |
Stephen Crane |
400 |
November 4, 1996 |
| Bartlett's quotes this reggae singer's "We're leaving Babylon, we're going to our father's land" |
Bob Marley |
500 |
November 4, 1996 |
| This "Wizard of Menlo Park" said, "I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill" |
Edison |
100 |
October 1, 1996 |
| In 1970 he declared it time for the great silent majority of Americans to stand up and be counted" |
Richard Nixon |
200 |
October 1, 1996 |
| In 1968 this mayor said, "The policeman isn't there to create disorder, (he) is there to preserve disorder" |
(Mayor) Daley (of Chicago) |
300 |
October 1, 1996 |
| In 1774 this orator told the first Continental Congress, "I am not a Virginian but an American" |
Patrick Henry |
400 |
October 1, 1996 |
| This Oliver Hazard Perry line precedes "Two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop" |
"We have met the enemy, and they are ours." |
500 |
October 1, 1996 |
| A toast to this state calls it "where the corn is full of kernels and the colonels full of corn" |
Kentucky |
100 |
September 6, 1996 |
| His comments on politics included "All politics is apple sauce" |
Will Rogers |
200 |
September 6, 1996 |
| According to Joe Hill, 'Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get" this "in the sky when you die" |
pie |
300 |
September 6, 1996 |
| In "O Pioneers!", she wrote, "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman" |
Willa Cather |
400 |
September 6, 1996 |
| Elbert Hubbard defined this as "a monotonous interval between fights" |
peace |
500 |
September 6, 1996 |
| In 1861 this Confederate president said, "All we ask is to be let alone" |
Jefferson Davis |
100 |
June 13, 1996 |
| On Jan. 9, 1959 this U.S. president told Congress, "America is best described by one word. Freedom" |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
200 |
June 13, 1996 |
| Benjamin Franklin said, "We must indeed all hang together. Or, most assuredly, we shall all" do this |
hang separately |
300 |
June 13, 1996 |
| An often heard political maxim is "As" this state "goes, so goes the nation" |
Maine |
400 |
June 13, 1996 |
| Novel in which the following line appears: "You are Jane Porter, I saw it in your letter" |
<i>Tarzan of the Apes</i> |
500 |
June 13, 1996 |
| Robert Frost wrote, it "Is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in" |
Home |
100 |
April 5, 1996 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting" this "in a theater" |
"Fire!" |
200 |
April 5, 1996 |
| Thomas Appleton said, "Good Americans, when they die, go to" this European city |
Paris |
300 |
April 5, 1996 |
| The inspirational quote "Win this one for the Gipper" is attributed to him |
Knute Rockne |
400 |
April 5, 1996 |
| German who wrote, "I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed" |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
500 |
April 5, 1996 |
| Word that ends Henny Youngman's line"Take my wife...." |
please |
100 |
March 27, 1996 |
| This humorist said, "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with" |
Will Rogers |
200 |
March 27, 1996 |
| She wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Don't you think I was made for you?" |
Zelda |
300 |
March 27, 1996 |
| Hemingway wrote, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called" this |
"Huckleberry Finn" |
400 |
March 27, 1996 |
| This first lady wrote, "It's misery when you become addicted" |
Betty Ford |
|
March 27, 1996 |
| This Russian empress wrote to Voltaire, "Your wit makes others witty" |
Catherine the Great |
100 |
November 20, 1995 |
| In "Walden", he wrote, "We need the tonic of wildness" |
Henry David Thoreau |
200 |
November 20, 1995 |
| Edison defined this as "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" |
genius |
300 |
November 20, 1995 |
| In "Waiting for Godot", he wrote, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful" |
Samuel Beckett |
400 |
November 20, 1995 |
| In 1964, he told the Republican Convention, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" |
Barry Goldwater |
|
November 20, 1995 |
| "A boy's best friend is his mother" is a line from this 1960 Anthony Perkins movie |
<i>Psycho</i> |
100 |
November 8, 1995 |
| "Don't get mad, get" this is attributed to Joseph P. Kennedy |
"even" |
200 |
November 8, 1995 |
| "Nice Guys" do this was the title of a 1975 book by Leo Durocher |
<i>Finish Last</i> |
300 |
November 8, 1995 |
| Noel Coward wrote that they "and Englishmen go out in the midday sun" |
"Mad dogs" |
400 |
November 8, 1995 |
| Isabella Mary Beeton's "Book of Household Management" advised "A place for everything and..." this |
everything in its place |
100 |
September 21, 1995 |
| She said, "Too few is as many as too many" as well as "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" |
Gertrude Stein |
200 |
September 21, 1995 |
| John Nance Garner called this political post "a spare tire on the automobile of government" |
the vice presidency |
300 |
September 21, 1995 |
| Yehudi Menuhin described this type of musician as "half tiger, half poet" & he should know |
a violinist |
400 |
September 21, 1995 |
| According to Sir Richard Steele, this pastime "is to the mind what exercise is to the body" |
reading |
500 |
September 21, 1995 |
| John Ray's 1670 book of English proverbs told us, "If wishes were horses", these people "might ride" |
beggars |
100 |
September 14, 1995 |
| Prince Charles once said, "I sometimes wonder if two-thirds of the globe is covered in" this color "carpet" |
red |
200 |
September 14, 1995 |
| In his 17th century play "The Rehearsal", George Villiers wrote, "Ay, now" this "thickens" |
the plot |
300 |
September 14, 1995 |
| This poetic pair "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible spoon" |
the Owl & the Pussycat |
400 |
September 14, 1995 |
| "At bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father", he wrote in "Totem and Taboo" |
Freud |
500 |
September 14, 1995 |
| Henry Adams said these people, not enemies, "are born, not made" |
friends |
100 |
July 10, 1995 |
| Poor Richard's Almanack tells us, "A fine genius in his own country, is like" this metal "in the mine" |
gold |
200 |
July 10, 1995 |
| Herodotus wrote, "Men trust their ears less than" these sense organs |
their eyes |
300 |
July 10, 1995 |
| Job said, "I am a brother to" these mythical beasts, "and a companion to owls" |
dragons |
400 |
July 10, 1995 |
| "The minority is always right" is a line from his 1882 play "An Enemy of the People" |
Henrik Ibsen |
500 |
July 10, 1995 |
| Shaw wrote, "A government which" does this "to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" |
Robs Peter |
100 |
November 14, 1994 |
| He was quoted April 14, 1961: "I could have gone on flying through space forever" |
Yuri Gagarin |
200 |
November 14, 1994 |
| Virgil spoke of it as "flying, never to return", a sign he was having fun |
Time |
300 |
November 14, 1994 |
| Truman said, "It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's" this "when you lose your own" |
Depression |
400 |
November 14, 1994 |
| Konrad Adenauer defined this subject as "the sum total of things that could have been avoided" |
History |
500 |
November 14, 1994 |
| In an address at Harvard, James Bryant Conant said that "Liberty, like charity, must begin" here |
at home |
100 |
January 20, 1994 |
| This French president said "When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself" |
de Gaulle |
200 |
January 20, 1994 |
| Vince Lombardi said "There are three important things in life: family, religion and" this team |
the Green Bay Packers |
300 |
January 20, 1994 |
| When asked to define this type of music, Louis Armstrong said, "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know" |
jazz |
400 |
January 20, 1994 |
| His 11th commandment was "Thou shalt not criticize other Republicans" |
Ronald Reagan |
500 |
January 20, 1994 |
| After taking the oath of office at Love Field in Dallas in 1963, he said, "Now let's get airborne" |
LBJ |
100 |
October 1, 1993 |
| It's the book in which you'd find the quote "All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others" |
<i>Animal Farm</i> |
200 |
October 1, 1993 |
| This 19th century actor said, "There's but one Hamlet to my mind: that's my brother Edwin |
John Wilkes Booth |
300 |
October 1, 1993 |
| "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be" this |
wise |
400 |
October 1, 1993 |
| On February 20, 1962, he said, "Cape is go and I am go" |
John Glenn |
500 |
October 1, 1993 |