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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. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






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






3. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






4. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






5. I am not young enough to know everything.






6. Hope is a waking dream.






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






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






9. 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; _____






10. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






11. Without music - life would be a mistake.






12. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






13. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






14. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






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






16. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






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






18. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






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






20. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






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






22. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






23. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






25. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






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






27. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






28. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






29. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






30. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






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






32. 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






33. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






34. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






35. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






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






37. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






38. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






39. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






40. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






41. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






42. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






43. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h






44. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






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






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






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






48. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






49. 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.






50. Chance favors the prepared mind.