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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. ____ 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






2. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






3. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






4. Bill Gates said: 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. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that






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






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






7. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






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

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9. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






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






11. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






12. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






13. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






14. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






15. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






16. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






17. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






18. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






19. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






20. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






21. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






22. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






23. 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.






24. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






25. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk






26. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






27. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






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






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






30. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






31. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






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






33. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






34. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






35. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






36. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






37. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






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






39. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






40. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






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






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






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






45. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






46. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






47. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






48. True friends stab you in the front.






49. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






50. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.