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






2. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






3. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






5. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






7. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






8. 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.






9. Chance favors the prepared mind.






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






11. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






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






13. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






14. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






15. A witty saying proves nothing.






16. Well done is better than well said.






17. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






18. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






19. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






21. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






22. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






23. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






24. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.






25. An unexamined life is not worth living.






26. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






27. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






28. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






29. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?






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






31. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.






32. 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!






33. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






34. 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.






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






36. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






37. Peace begins with a smile.






38. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






39. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






40. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






41. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






42. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






44. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






45. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






47. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






48. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






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






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