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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






2. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






3. 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.






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






5. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






6. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






7. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






8. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






9. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






10. 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?






11. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






12. 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.






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






14. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






15. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






16. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






17. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






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






19. 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.






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






21. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






22. 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.






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






28. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






29. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.






30. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






31. 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!






32. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






33. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






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






35. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






36. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






37. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






38. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






39. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






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






41. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






42. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






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






45. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






46. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






47. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ 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 de






48. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






49. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






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