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






2. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






3. There are no facts - only interpretations.






4. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






5. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






6. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






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






8. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






9. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






10. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






11. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






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






13. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






14. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






15. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






16. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






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






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






19. Hope is a waking dream.






20. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






21. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






22. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.






23. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






24. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






25. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






26. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






27. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






28. 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.






29. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






30. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






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






32. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






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






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






35. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






36. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






37. 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.






38. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






39. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






40. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






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






42. Wisdom begins in wonder.






43. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






44. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






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






46. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






47. 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.






48. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






49. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






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