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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. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






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






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






4. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






10. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






11. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






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






13. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






14. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






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






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






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






18. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






19. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






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






21. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






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






23. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






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






25. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






26. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






27. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






28. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






29. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






30. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






31. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






32. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






33. I think; therefore I am.






34. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






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






36. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






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






38. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






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






40. Time makes more converts than reason.






41. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






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






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