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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. Without music - life would be a mistake.






2. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






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






4. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






5. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






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






7. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






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






9. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






10. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






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






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






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






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






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






16. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






17. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






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






19. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






20. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






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






22. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






23. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






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






25. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____


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






27. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






28. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






29. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






30. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






31. If you are going through hell - keep going.






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






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






34. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






35. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






36. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






37. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






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






39. 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.






40. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






41. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






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






43. 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.






44. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






45. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






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






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






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






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






50. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.