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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. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






2. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






3. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






4. 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.






5. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






6. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






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






8. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






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






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






11. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






12. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






13. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






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






15. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






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






17. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






18. ____ 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






19. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






20. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






21. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






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






23. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






24. An unexamined life is not worth living.






25. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






26. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






31. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






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






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






34. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






35. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






36. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






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






38. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






39. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






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






41. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






42. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






43. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






44. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






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






46. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






47. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






48. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






49. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






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