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Famous Quotes Trivia

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






2. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






3. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






4. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






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






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






7. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






8. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






9. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






10. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






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






12. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






17. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






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






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






20. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






21. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






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






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






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






25. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






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






27. This is like deja vu all over again.






28. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






29. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






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






31. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






32. There are no facts - only interpretations.






33. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






34. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






35. 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. I - at any rate - am convinced that He does not thro






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






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






44. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






45. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






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






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






48. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






49. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






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







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