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Famous Quotes Trivia

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






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






3. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






4. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.






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






6. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






7. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






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






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






10. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






11. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






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






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






14. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






15. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






16. 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.






17. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






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






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






20. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






21. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






22. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






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






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






29. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






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






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






32. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






33. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






34. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






35. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






36. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






37. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






38. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






39. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






40. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






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






42. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.






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






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






45. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






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






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






48. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






49. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






50. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____