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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






2. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






3. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






4. 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.






5. There are no facts - only interpretations.






6. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






7. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






8. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






9. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






10. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






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






12. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






13. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






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






15. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






16. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






17. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






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






19. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






20. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






21. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






22. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






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






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






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






26. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






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






28. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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






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






31. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






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






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






34. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






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






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






37. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






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






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






40. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






41. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






42. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






43. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






44. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






45. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






46. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






47. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






48. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






49. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






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