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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. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






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






3. To find yourself - think for yourself.






4. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






5. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






6. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






7. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






8. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






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






10. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






11. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






12. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






13. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






14. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






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






16. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






17. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






18. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






19. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






20. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.






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






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






23. It aint over till its over.






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






25. 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.






26. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






27. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






28. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






29. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






30. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






31. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






32. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






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






34. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






35. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






36. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






37. 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.






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






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






40. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






41. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






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






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






44. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






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






46. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






47. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






48. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






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






50. Yoda said: Do - or do not. _____