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






2. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






3. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






4. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






5. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






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






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






8. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






9. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






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






11. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






12. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






13. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






14. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






15. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






16. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






17. I think; therefore I am.






18. Wit is well-bred insolence.






19. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






20. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






21. 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






22. Wisdom begins in wonder.






23. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






24. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






25. Without music - life would be a mistake.






26. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






27. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






28. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






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






30. 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!






31. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






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






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






34. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






35. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






36. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






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






38. 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.






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






40. He is richest who is content with the least.






41. 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.






42. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






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






44. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






45. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






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






47. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






48. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






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






50. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.