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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. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






2. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






3. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____






4. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






5. 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.






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






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






8. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






9. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






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






11. 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.






12. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






13. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






14. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






15. 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.






16. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






17. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






18. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.






19. You may delay - but time will not.






20. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






21. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






22. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






23. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






24. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






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






26. I can resist everything except temptation.






27. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






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






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






30. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






31. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






32. ____ 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






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






34. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






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






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






37. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






38. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






39. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






40. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






41. Wisdom begins in wonder.






42. Peace begins with a smile.






43. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






44. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






45. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






46. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






47. 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.






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






49. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






50. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.