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






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






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






4. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






5. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






6. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






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






8. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






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






10. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






11. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






12. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






13. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






14. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






15. You may delay - but time will not.






16. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






17. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






18. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






19. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____






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






21. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






22. 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. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






23. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






24. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






25. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






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






27. 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.






28. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






29. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






30. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






31. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






32. 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.






33. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






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






35. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






36. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






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






38. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






39. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






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






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






42. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






43. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






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






45. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






46. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






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






48. I can resist everything except temptation.






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






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