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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. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






2. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






3. It aint over till its over.






4. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






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






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






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






8. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






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






10. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






11. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






12. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






13. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






14. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






15. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






16. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






17. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






18. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






19. He not busy being born is busy dying.






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






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






25. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






26. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






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






28. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






29. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






30. 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.






31. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






32. What is now proved was once only imagined.






33. 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






34. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






35. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






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






37. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






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






39. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






40. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






41. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






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






43. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






44. Wit is well-bred insolence.






45. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






46. 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.






47. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






48. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






49. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






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