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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 a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






2. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






3. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






4. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






5. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






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






7. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






8. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






9. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






10. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






11. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






12. Hope is a waking dream.






13. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






14. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






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






16. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






17. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






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






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






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






21. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






22. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






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






24. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






25. Peace begins with a smile.






26. 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






27. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






28. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






29. Wisdom begins in wonder.






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






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






32. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






33. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






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






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






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






37. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






38. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






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






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






41. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






42. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






43. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






44. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






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






46. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






47. 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.






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






49. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






50. Well done is better than well said.