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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. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






2. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






3. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






4. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






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






6. I am not young enough to know everything.






7. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






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






9. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






10. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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11. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






12. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






13. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






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






15. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






16. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






22. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






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






24. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






25. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






26. 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






27. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






28. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






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






30. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






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






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






33. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






34. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






35. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






36. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






37. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






38. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






39. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






40. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






41. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






42. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






43. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






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






45. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






46. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






47. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






48. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






49. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






50. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.







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