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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. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






2. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






3. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






4. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






5. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






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






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






8. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






9. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






10. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






11. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






12. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






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






14. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






15. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






16. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






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






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






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






20. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






21. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






22. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






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






24. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






25. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






26. 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!






27. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






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






29. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






30. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






31. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






32. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






33. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






34. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






35. 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.






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






37. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






38. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






39. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






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






41. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






42. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






43. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






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






45. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






46. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






47. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






48. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






49. 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.






50. William Shakespeare said: If music be the food of love - _____







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