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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. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____






2. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






3. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






4. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






5. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






6. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






7. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






8. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






9. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






10. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






11. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






12. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






13. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






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






15. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






16. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






17. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






18. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






19. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






20. 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.






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






22. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






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






24. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






26. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






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






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






29. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






30. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






31. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






32. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






33. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






34. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






35. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






36. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






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






38. Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






39. 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.






40. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






41. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






42. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






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






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






45. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






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






47. 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.






48. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






49. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






50. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.