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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. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






2. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






3. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






4. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






5. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






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






7. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






8. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






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






10. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






11. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






12. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






13. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






15. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






16. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






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






18. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






19. True friends stab you in the front.






20. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






21. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






22. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






23. 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.






24. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






25. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






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






27. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






28. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






29. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






30. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






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






32. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






33. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






34. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






35. If a nation expects to be ignorant and free - in a state of civilization - it expects what never was and never will be.






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






37. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






38. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






39. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






40. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






41. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






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






43. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






44. The chief business of the American people is business.






45. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






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






47. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






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






49. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






50. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.