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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. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






2. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






3. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






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






5. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






6. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






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






8. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






9. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






10. Peace begins with a smile.






11. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






12. 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






13. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






14. Wit is well-bred insolence.






15. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






16. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






17. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






18. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






19. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.






20. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






21. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






22. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






23. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






24. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






25. What is now proved was once only imagined.






26. 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.






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






28. You may delay - but time will not.






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






30. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






31. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






32. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






33. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






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






35. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






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






37. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






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






39. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






40. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






41. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






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






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






44. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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






46. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






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






48. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






49. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






50. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.