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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. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






2. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






3. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






4. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






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






6. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






7. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






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






9. A witty saying proves nothing.






10. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






11. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






12. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






13. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






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






15. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






16. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






17. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






18. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






19. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






20. If music be the food of love - play on.






21. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






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






23. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






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






25. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






26. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






27. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






28. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk






29. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






30. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






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






32. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






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






34. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






35. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






36. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






37. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____






38. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






39. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






40. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






41. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






42. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






43. If music be the food of love - play on.






44. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






45. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






46. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






47. 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.






48. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






49. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






50. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.







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