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






2. 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.






3. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






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






5. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






6. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






7. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






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






9. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






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






11. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






12. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






13. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






14. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






15. 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.






16. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






17. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






18. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






19. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






20. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






21. 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.






22. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






23. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






24. 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.






25. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






26. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






27. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






28. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






29. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






30. Chance favors the prepared mind.






31. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






32. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






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






34. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






35. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






36. We need men who can dream of things that never were.






37. True friends stab you in the front.






38. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






39. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






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






41. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






42. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






43. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






44. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






45. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






46. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






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






48. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






49. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






50. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.