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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. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






2. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






3. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






4. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






5. Wisdom begins in wonder.






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






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






8. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






9. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






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






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






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






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






14. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






15. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






16. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






17. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






18. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






19. It aint over till its over.






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






21. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






22. 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.






23. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






24. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






25. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






26. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






27. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






28. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






29. 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.






30. Time makes more converts than reason.






31. 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.






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






33. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






34. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






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






36. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






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






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






39. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






40. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






41. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






42. 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.






43. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






45. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






46. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






47. 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.






48. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






49. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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