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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






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. He is richest who is content with the least.






4. 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.






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






6. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






7. Peace begins with a smile.






8. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






9. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






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






11. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






12. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






13. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






14. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






15. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






16. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






17. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






18. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






19. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






20. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






21. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






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






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






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






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






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






27. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






28. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






29. Hope is a waking dream.






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






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






32. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






33. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






34. 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.






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






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






37. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






38. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






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






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






41. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






42. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






43. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






44. The chief business of the American people is business.






45. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






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






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






48. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






49. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






50. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.