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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. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






2. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






3. 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.






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






5. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






6. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






7. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






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






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






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






11. I can resist everything except temptation.






12. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






13. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






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






15. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






16. An unexamined life is not worth living.






17. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






18. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






19. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






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






21. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






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






23. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






24. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






25. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






26. Edith Wharton said: There are two ways of spreading light-- _____ or the mirror that reflects it.






27. Well done is better than well said.






28. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






29. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






30. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






31. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






32. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






33. He is richest who is content with the least.






34. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






35. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






36. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






37. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






38. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






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






40. ____ 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






41. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






42. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






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






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






46. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






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






48. Do - or do not. There is no try.






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






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






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