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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. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






2. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






3. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






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






5. Chance favors the prepared mind.






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






7. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






8. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






9. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






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






11. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






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






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






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






15. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






16. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






17. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






18. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






19. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






20. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






21. Individual commitment to a group effort-- that is what makes a team work - a company work - a society work - a civilization work.






22. Robert Frost said: In three words I can sum up everything Ive learned about life - _____






23. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






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






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






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






27. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






28. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






29. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






30. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






31. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






32. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






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






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






35. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






36. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






37. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






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






39. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






41. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






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






43. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






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






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






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






47. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






48. There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






49. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






50. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.







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