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






2. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






3. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






4. Success is not final - failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.






5. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






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






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






8. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






9. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






10. 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.






11. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






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






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






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






15. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






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






17. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






18. Aristotle said: Hope _____






19. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






20. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






21. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






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






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






24. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






25. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






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






27. 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.






28. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






29. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






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






31. 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.






32. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






33. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






34. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






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






36. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






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






38. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






39. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.






40. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






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






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






43. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






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






45. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






46. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






47. 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






48. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






49. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






50. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?