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






2. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






3. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






4. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






5. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






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






7. 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.






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






9. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






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






11. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






12. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






14. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






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






16. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






22. 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.






23. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






24. 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






25. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






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






27. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






28. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






29. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






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






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






32. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






33. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






34. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






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






36. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






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






38. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






39. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






40. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






41. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






42. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






43. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






44. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






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






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






47. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






48. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






49. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






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