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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. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






2. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






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






4. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






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






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






7. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






8. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






9. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






10. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






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






12. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






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






14. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






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






16. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






17. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






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






19. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






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






21. If music be the food of love - play on.






22. 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.






23. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






24. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






25. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






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






27. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






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






29. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






30. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






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






32. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






34. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






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






36. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






37. 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.






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






39. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






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






41. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






42. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






43. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






44. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






45. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






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






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






48. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






49. 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.






50. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.