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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. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






2. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






3. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






4. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






5. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






6. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






7. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






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






9. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






11. He is richest who is content with the least.






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






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






14. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






15. This is like deja vu all over again.






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






17. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






18. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?






19. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






20. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






21. Without music - life would be a mistake.






22. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






23. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






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






25. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






26. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






27. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






28. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






29. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






30. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






31. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






32. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






33. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






34. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






35. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






36. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






37. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






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






39. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






40. 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.






41. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






42. 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.






43. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






44. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






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






46. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






47. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






48. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






49. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






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






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