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






2. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






3. 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.






4. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






5. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






6. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






7. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






8. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






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






10. 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.






11. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






12. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






13. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






14. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






15. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






16. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






17. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






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






19. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






20. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






21. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






22. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






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






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






25. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






26. 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.






27. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






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






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






30. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






31. 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






32. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






33. Well done is better than well said.






34. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






35. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






36. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






37. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






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






39. There are no facts - only interpretations.






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






41. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






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






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






44. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






45. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






46. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






47. I am not young enough to know everything.






48. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






49. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






50. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.