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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. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






2. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






3. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






4. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






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






6. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






7. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






8. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






9. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






10. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






11. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






12. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






13. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






14. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






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






16. 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






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






18. 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.






19. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






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






21. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






22. An unexamined life is not worth living.






23. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






24. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






25. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






26. Without music - life would be a mistake.






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






28. 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.






29. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






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






31. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






32. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






33. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






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






35. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






36. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






37. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






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






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






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






41. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






42. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






43. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






44. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






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






46. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






47. It aint over till its over.






48. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






49. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






50. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.