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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. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






2. 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.






3. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.






4. 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.






5. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






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






7. If music be the food of love - play on.






8. 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






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






10. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






11. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






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






13. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






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






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






16. If music be the food of love - play on.






17. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






18. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






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






20. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






21. Leonardo da Vinci said: Where the spirit does not work with the hand - _____






22. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






23. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






24. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






25. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






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






27. 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.






28. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






29. This is like deja vu all over again.






30. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






31. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






32. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






33. It aint over till its over.






34. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






35. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






36. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






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






38. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






39. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.






40. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






41. 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






42. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






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






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






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






46. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






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






48. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






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






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