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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. Time makes more converts than reason.






2. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






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






4. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






5. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






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






7. It aint over till its over.






8. 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.






9. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






10. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






11. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






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






13. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






17. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






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






19. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






20. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






21. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






22. I can resist everything except temptation.






23. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






24. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.






25. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






26. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






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






28. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






29. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






30. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






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






32. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






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






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






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






36. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






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






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






39. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____






40. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






41. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






42. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






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






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






45. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






46. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






47. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






48. He not busy being born is busy dying.






49. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






50. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.