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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. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






2. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






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






4. 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.






5. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






6. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






7. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






8. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






9. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






10. Wisdom begins in wonder.






11. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






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






13. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






14. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






15. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






16. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






17. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






18. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






19. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






20. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.






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






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






23. Wisdom begins in wonder.






24. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






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






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






27. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






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






29. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






30. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






31. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






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






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






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






35. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






36. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






37. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






38. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






39. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.






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






41. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






42. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






43. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






44. 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.






45. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






46. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






47. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






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






49. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






50. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.