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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
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  • 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. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






2. True friends stab you in the front.






3. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






4. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






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






6. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






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






8. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






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






10. 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.






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






12. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






13. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






14. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____ am convinced that He doe






15. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






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






17. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






18. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






19. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






21. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






22. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






23. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






24. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






25. 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.






26. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






27. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






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






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






30. 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






31. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






32. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






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






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






35. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






36. 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.






37. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






38. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






39. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






40. 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.






41. Hope is a waking dream.






42. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






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






44. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






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






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






47. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






48. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






49. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






50. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.







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