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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. 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.






2. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






3. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






4. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






5. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






6. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






7. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






8. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






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






10. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






11. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






12. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






13. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






14. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






15. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






16. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






17. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






18. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






19. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






20. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






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






22. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






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. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






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






26. 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.






27. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






28. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






29. ____ 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






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






31. 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.






32. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






33. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






34. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






35. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






36. 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.






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






38. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






39. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






40. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






41. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






42. Well done is better than well said.






43. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






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






45. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






46. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






47. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






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






49. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






50. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.