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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. 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.
Like fire -
Benjamin Franklin
George S. Patton
Thomas Edison
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.
Patrick Henry
Will Rogers
George Bernard Shaw
W. Somerset Maugham
3. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.
Love all -
Groucho Marx
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
4. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that
Winston Churchill
And the Macintosh -
Rich Cook
Voltaire
5. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
You see things;
Naked people have
Will Rogers
6. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.
George S. Patton
Alan Kay
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
7. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Proves nothing.
Isaac Newton
It is hard to fail -
Trust a few -
8. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Behind the lines -
Woody Allen
Mother Teresa
Wit
9. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.
Till its over.
To err is human;
Benjamin Franklin
Theodore Roosevelt
10. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.
An eye for an eye
William Shakespeare
John Milton
Veni -
11. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Winston Churchill
Carl Sagan
Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein
12. Wisdom begins in wonder.
Winston Churchill
Socrates
Will Rogers
Winston Churchill
13. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.
James Branch Cabell
Mel Brooks
Entire of itself;
I think;
14. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Albert Einstein
Like fire -
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Jefferson
15. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Napoleon Bonaparte
Winston Churchill
Success is going
16. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.
Leonardo da Vinci
In the gym -
Mark Twain
Joseph Stalin
17. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.
Speak softly
Thomas Paine
Augustine
John F. Kennedy
18. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.
Mark Twain
Be kind -
Mel Brooks
Mother Teresa
19. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
Mario Andretti
Thomas Aquinas
Plato
20. 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.
Charles Darwin
Is fear itself
Marcel Proust
Read only a page.
21. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____
C. S. Lewis
Must - like men -
Thomas Jefferson
Or Not guilty.
22. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.
Dwight Eisenhower
Mark Twain
Time
Sun Tzu
23. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Gobble their food -
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
24. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Winston Churchill
Bertrand Russell
Vici
Isaac Asimov
25. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Decca Recording Co.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Will Durant
Dwight Eisenhower
26. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Keep going.
Kurt Vonnegut
Leonardo da Vinci
Friedrich Nietzsche
27. 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.
Ronald Reagan
Like art...
And the pessimist
Saul Bellow
28. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Winston Churchill
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
C. S. Lewis
29. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Eleanor Roosevelt
Douglas Adams
Albert Einstein
30. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk
Adam Smith
Trust a few -
Religion
Than reason.
31. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Douglas Adams
Entire of itself;
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
32. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____
Theodore Roosevelt
Leonardo da Vinci
Ronald Reagan
Or get busy dying.
33. 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.
Mark Twain
Pablo Picasso
And I sayWhy not?
Rene Descartes
34. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Thomas Paine
Napoleon Bonaparte
And in that faith -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Proves nothing.
Marcel Proust
C. S. Lewis
And I sayWhy not?
36. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
C. S. Lewis
Ronald Reagan
Winston Churchill
Stephen Hawking
37. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.
Plato
The first principle
True friends
Mark Twain
38. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Plato
Thomas Jefferson
Who the hell wants
Bertrand Russell
39. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Meet any hardship -
John Wooden
Laozi
G. K. Chesterton
40. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Theodore Roosevelt
Peace at any price -
Socrates
Galileo Galilei
41. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____
With a smile.
Money doesnt talk -
Do wrong to none.
Theodore Roosevelt
42. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
To utter
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
43. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Do - or do not.
George Bernard Shaw
Except temptation.
Mother Teresa
44. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!
Like philosophy -
Oscar Wilde
Dave Barry
Tears and sweat.
45. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.
Carl Sagan
With what you have -
George Carlin
Get busy living -
46. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Death is peaceful.
Margaret Thatcher
Ansel Adams
Mark Twain
47. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Oscar Wilde
Kahlil Gibran
Plato
Woody Allen
48. To be - or not to be - That is the question.
Pablo Picasso
With a smile.
Thomas Jefferson
William Shakespeare
49. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____
There is no try.
George Bernard Shaw
Robert Oppenheimer
Is to invent it.
50. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Carl Sagan
Thomas Jefferson
Linus Torvalds
Bill Gates