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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. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






2. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






3. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






4. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






5. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






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






7. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






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






9. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






10. It aint over till its over.






11. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






12. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






13. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






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






15. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






16. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






17. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






19. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






20. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






21. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






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






23. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






24. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others - whenever they go.






25. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






26. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






27. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






28. Well done is better than well said.






29. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






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






31. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






32. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






33. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






34. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






35. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






36. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






37. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






38. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






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






40. 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.






41. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






42. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






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






44. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






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






46. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






47. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






48. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






49. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






50. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.