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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 price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






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






3. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






4. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






5. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






6. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






7. 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.






8. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






9. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






11. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






12. Thomas Edison said: _____ you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






13. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






14. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






15. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






16. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






17. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






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






19. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






20. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






21. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






22. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






23. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






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






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






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






27. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






28. 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.






29. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






30. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






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






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






33. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






34. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






35. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






36. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






37. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






38. 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.






39. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






40. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






41. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






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






43. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.






44. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






45. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






46. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






48. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






49. 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.






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







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