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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. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






2. 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.






3. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






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






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






6. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






7. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






8. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






9. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






10. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






11. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






12. This is like deja vu all over again.






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






14. 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; _____






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






16. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






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






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






19. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






20. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






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






22. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






23. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






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






25. An unexamined life is not worth living.






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






27. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






28. If music be the food of love - play on.






29. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






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






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






32. 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






33. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






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






35. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






36. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






37. I can resist everything except temptation.






38. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






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






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






41. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






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






44. 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.






45. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






46. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






47. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






48. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






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






50. Hope is a waking dream.







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