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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. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






2. 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.






3. Without music - life would be a mistake.






4. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






5. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






6. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






7. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






8. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






9. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






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






11. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






12. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






13. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






15. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






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






17. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






18. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






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






20. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






21. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.






22. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






23. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






24. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






25. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






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






27. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






28. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






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






30. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






31. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






32. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






33. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






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






39. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






40. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






41. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






42. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






43. 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






44. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






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. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






47. 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.






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






49. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






50. 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.