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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. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






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






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






4. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






5. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






6. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






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






8. To find yourself - think for yourself.






9. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






10. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






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






15. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






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






17. Well done is better than well said.






18. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






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






20. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






21. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






22. He not busy being born is busy dying.






23. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






24. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






25. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






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






27. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






28. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






29. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






30. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






31. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






32. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






33. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






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






35. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






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






37. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






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






39. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






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






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






42. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






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






44. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






45. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






46. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






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






48. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






49. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






50. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!