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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. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






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






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






4. Wisdom begins in wonder.






5. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






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






7. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






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






9. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






10. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






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






12. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






13. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






14. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






15. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






16. Chance favors the prepared mind.






17. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






18. 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.






19. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






20. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






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






22. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






23. 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.






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






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






26. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






27. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






28. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






29. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






30. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






31. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






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






33. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.






34. 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.






35. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






36. Do - or do not. There is no try.






37. 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.






38. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






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






40. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.






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






42. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






43. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






44. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






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






46. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






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






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






49. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






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






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