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






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






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






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






5. The chief business of the American people is business.






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






7. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






8. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






9. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






10. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






11. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






12. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






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






14. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






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






16. 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






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






18. Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.






19. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






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






21. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






22. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






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






24. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






25. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






26. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






27. In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.






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






29. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






30. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






31. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






32. True friends stab you in the front.






33. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






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






35. Without music - life would be a mistake.






36. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






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






38. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






39. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






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






41. 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.






42. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.