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






2. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






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






5. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






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






7. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






8. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






9. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






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






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






13. Pablo Picasso said: _____ 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.






14. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






15. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






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






17. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






18. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






19. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






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






21. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






22. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






23. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






24. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






25. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






26. Do - or do not. There is no try.






27. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






28. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






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






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






31. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






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






33. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






34. 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






35. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






36. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






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






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






39. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






40. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






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






42. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






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






44. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






45. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






46. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






47. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






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






49. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






50. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






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