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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. He not busy being born is busy dying.






2. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






3. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






4. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






5. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






6. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






7. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






8. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






9. 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






10. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






11. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






12. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






13. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






14. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






15. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






16. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






17. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






18. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h






19. Hope is a waking dream.






20. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






21. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






22. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






23. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






24. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






25. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.






26. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






27. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






28. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






29. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






30. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






31. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






32. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.






33. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






34. 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.






35. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






36. 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.






37. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






38. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






39. If you are going through hell - keep going.






40. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






41. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






42. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






43. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






44. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






45. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






46. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






47. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






48. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






49. He not busy being born is busy dying.






50. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.