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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. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






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






3. Do - or do not. There is no try.






4. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






5. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






6. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






7. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






8. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






9. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






10. A witty saying proves nothing.






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






12. You may delay - but time will not.






13. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






14. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






15. 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






16. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






17. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






18. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






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






20. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






21. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






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






23. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






24. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






25. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






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






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






28. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






29. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






30. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






31. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






32. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






33. Chance favors the prepared mind.






34. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






35. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






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






37. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






38. 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






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






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






41. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






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






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






44. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






45. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






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






47. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






48. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






49. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






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