The Bible Flashcards
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The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
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Matthew 5:5 Beatitudes
2
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A Soft Answer Turns away wrath
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Proverbs 15:1 (Solomon)
3
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Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone
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Matthew 4:4 (Jesus)
Deuteronomy 8:3 (Moses)
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Patriotism is the Last refuge of a scoundrel
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Samuel Johnson
English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
5
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A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou
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Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat)
6
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If I have seen further, it is from standing on the shoulders of giants
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Sir Isaac Newton
7
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The Proof of the Pudding is in the eating
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Miguel de Cervantes
8
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Give the Devil has Due
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Miguel De Cervantes
9
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Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Alexander Pope
10
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A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing
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Alexander Pope
11
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Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast
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Alexander Pope
12
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In Xanadu Did Kublai Khan a Stately Pleasure Dome Decree
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Kubla Khan)
13
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Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
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I’ve Loved the Stars to Fondly to be Fearful of the Night
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Galileo Galilei
15
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Knowledge is Power
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Francis Bacon
16
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They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait
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John Milton
17
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It wast he Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times
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Charles Dickens (A Tale of TWo Cities)
18
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IT is a far, far better thing to do than I have ever done
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Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)
19
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It is Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
20
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A room without books is like a body without a soul
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GK Chesterton
21
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I can resist anything, but temptation
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Oscar Wilde
22
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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage
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Richard Lovelace
English poet in the seventeenth century
23
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That which doesn’t kill me makes me stronger
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Fredrich Nietzsche
24
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If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
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Voltaire
25
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains
Jean Jacques Rousseau
26
I think, Therefore I am
Rene Descartes
27
L'Etat C'est Moi (I am the state)
Louis 16
28
Never Complain and never explain
Benjamin Disraeli
29
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Benjamin Franklin
30
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks
Benjamin Franklin
31
There was never a good war, or a bad peace
Benjamin Franklin
32
Nothing is Certain but death and taxes
Benjamin Franklin
33
I have not yet begun to fight
John Paul Jones
34
These are the times that try men's souls
Thomas Paine (An American Crisis)
35
Give me Liberty or Give me Death
Patrick Henry
he is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War.
36
I Regret that I have but one life to give for my country
Nathan Hale
37
Don't Fire Until You see the Whites of Their Eyes
William Prescott (Battle of Bunker Hill)
38
We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours
Oliver Hazard Perry (Battle of Lake Erie)
39
Gridley, You may Fire When Ready
Commodore Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898
40
Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead
Admiral David Farragut (Battle of Mobile Bay) -- Civil War
41
My Country, Right or Wrong
Stephan Decatur
a United States naval officer and Commodore notable for his many naval victories in the early 19th century
42
War is Cruelty, You Cannot Refine It
William Tecumseh Sherman
43
An Army Marches on its Stomach
Napoleon
44
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous is but a step
Napoleon
45
Where Ignorance is Bliss, T'is Folly to be wise
Thomas Grey
Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
46
If winter comes, can spring be far behind
Percy Bysshe Shelly (Ode to the West Wind)
47
Hail To They, Blythe Spirit
To a Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shely
48
Our Smile is for People Who have forgotten how to smile
Mother Teresa
49
Can't We All Just Get Along
Rodney King
50
I Have a Dream
Martin Luthar King
51
God Does not Play Dice with the Universe
Albert Einstein
52
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Milton Freedman
53
I Saw the best minds of my generation Destroyed by Madness
Allan Ginsberg (Howl)
54
Flower Power
Allen Ginsberg
55
In the Future Everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes
Andy Warhol
56
It's not whether you win or lose, but how you play teh game
Grantland Rice
an early 20th-century American sportswriter
57
It Ain;t Over Til It's Over
Yogi Berra
58
Once you Learn to Quit, It Becomes a Habit
Vince Lombardi
head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s
59
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
Knute Rockne
coach at the University of Notre Dame. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history
60
Television is a vast wasteland
Newton Minow
former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
61
The medium is the messaeg
Marshall Mcluhan
Canadian philosopher of communication theory
62
The Pubic Be Damned
Cornelius Vanderbilt
63
The Customer is Always Right
Marshall Field
64
An iron curtain has descended across the continent
Winston Churchill
65
Power is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac
Henry Kissinger
66
Ask Not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country
John. F Kennedy
67
I would give anything not to be standing here today
Lyndon B. Johnson
68
I don't get ulcers, I give them
Lyndon Baines Johnson
69
The Buck Stops Here
Harry S. Truman
70
The Business of America is Business
Calvin Coolidge
71
We Need To Make the World Safe for Democracy
Woodrow WIlson
72
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Abraham Lincoln
73
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable
Daniel Webster
During his 40 years in national politics, Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years (representing New Hampshire), in the Senate for 19 years (representing Massachusetts), and was appointed the United States Secretary of State under three presidents
best known for negotiating the Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain; it established the definitive eastern border between the United States and Canada.
74
There but for the grace of god, Go I
John Bradford
e was an English Reformer and martyr. Bradford was in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Mary Tudor for his Protestant faith
75
Go West, Young Man
Horace Greeley (Journalist)
76
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent Perspiration
Thomas Edison
77
What Happens to A Dream Deferred? Does it Dry Up Like a Raisin in the Sun?
Langston Hughes (Harlem)
78
Men Seldom Make Passes Who Wear Glasses
Dorothy Parker
79
I Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
Will Rogers
An American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son"
Born to Cherokee Nation Family
80
There is a Sucker Born Every Minute
PT Barnum
81
All Power Tends to Currupt, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
John Acton
was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer
82
We Need Religion for Religion's Sake, Morality for Morality's Sake, and Art for Art's Sake
Victor Cousin
a French philosopher. He was a proponent of Scottish Common Sense Realism and had an important influence on French educational policy
83
How can the consent of the governed be given, if the right to vote be denied
Susan B. Anthony
84
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs
Karl Marx
85
Religion is the Opium of the People
Karl Marx
86
Beauty without Grace is the Hook without the bait
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Civilization
87
God is in his heaven, All's Right with the World
Robert Browning
Pippa Passes
88
Come Grow Old With Me, The Best is Yet to Come
Robert Browning
Rabbi Ben Ezra
89
Whosoever Loves, Believes in the Impossible
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
90
The Mass of Men Live LIves of Quite Desperation
Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
91
Success is Counted Sweetest by Those Who Ne'Er Succeed
Emily Dickenson
92
Because I could Not STop for Death, He Kindly Stopped for Me
Emily Dickenson
93
My Candle's Burning at Both Ends
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
94
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever
John Keats
95
Truth is Beauty
John Keats
Ode to a Grecian Urn
96
Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned
William Congreve
The Mourning Bride (1697)
97
Travel is Fatal To Prejudice, Bigotry and Narrow-Mindedness
Mark Twain
98
Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that Basket
Mark Twain
99
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
Oscar Wilde
100
A rose is a rose is a rose
Gertrude Stein
Sacred Emily
101
I have promises to Keep and Mikes to Go Before I sleep
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
102
Two Roads Diverged in a wood and I Took the One Less Traveled
Robert Frost
The Road Less Traveled
103
Man's Ego is the Fountainhead of Human Progress
Ayn Rand
104
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in
Robert Frost
The death of the hired man
105
I am teh Master of My Fate, I am the Captian of my Soul
Ernest Henley
Invictus
106
East is East and West is west and never the twain shall meet
Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of East and West
107
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Arthur C. Clarke
108
There is a sucker born every minute
PT Barnum
