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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. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






2. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






3. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






4. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






5. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






6. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






7. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






8. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






9. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






10. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






11. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






12. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






13. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






14. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






15. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






16. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






17. 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.






18. Do - or do not. There is no try.






19. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






20. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






21. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






22. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






23. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






24. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






25. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






26. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






27. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






28. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.






29. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






30. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






31. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






32. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






33. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






34. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






35. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






36. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






37. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






38. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






39. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






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






41. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






42. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






43. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






44. He not busy being born is busy dying.






45. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






46. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






47. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






48. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






49. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






50. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.







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