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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 are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






2. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






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






4. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






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






6. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






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






8. 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.






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






10. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






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






12. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






13. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






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






15. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






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






18. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






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






20. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






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






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






23. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






24. 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.






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






26. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






27. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






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. An unexamined life is not worth living.






30. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.






31. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






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






33. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






34. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.






35. I can resist everything except temptation.






36. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






37. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






38. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






39. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






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






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






42. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






43. 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.






44. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






45. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






46. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






47. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






48. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






49. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






50. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h







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