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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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1. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






2. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






3. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






10. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






11. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






12. 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.






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






14. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






15. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






16. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____






17. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






18. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






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






20. A witty saying proves nothing.






21. 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






22. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






23. However beautiful the strategy - you should occasionally look at the results.






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






25. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






26. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






27. 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.






28. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






29. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






33. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






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






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






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






37. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






38. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






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






45. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






46. Albert Einstein said: 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. _____ am convinced that He doe






47. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






48. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






49. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






50. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.







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