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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. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






2. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






3. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






4. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






5. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






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






7. 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.






8. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






9. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






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






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






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






13. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






14. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






15. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






16. 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.






17. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






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






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






20. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






21. 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






22. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






23. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






24. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






25. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






26. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






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






28. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






29. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






30. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






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






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






33. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.






34. To find yourself - think for yourself.






35. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






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






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






38. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






39. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






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






41. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






42. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






43. 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; _____






44. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






45. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






46. 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.






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






48. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






49. 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.






50. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






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