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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






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






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






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






5. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






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






7. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






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






9. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






10. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






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






12. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






13. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






14. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






15. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






16. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






17. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






18. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






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






20. 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; _____






21. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






22. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






23. The chief business of the American people is business.






24. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






25. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






26. He not busy being born is busy dying.






27. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






28. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






29. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






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






31. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






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






33. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






34. 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.






35. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






36. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






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






38. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






39. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






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






41. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






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






44. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






45. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






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






47. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






48. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






49. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






50. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.