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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. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






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






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






4. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.






5. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






6. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






7. 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.






8. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






9. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






10. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






11. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






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






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






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






15. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






16. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






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






18. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






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






20. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






21. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






22. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






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






24. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






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






26. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






27. ____ 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






28. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






29. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






30. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






31. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






32. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.






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






34. 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.






35. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.






36. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






37. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






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






39. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






40. Do - or do not. There is no try.






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






42. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






43. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






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






45. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






46. Aristotle said: Hope _____






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






48. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






49. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






50. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.