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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. I think; therefore I am.






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






3. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






4. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






5. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






6. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






7. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






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






9. Wit is well-bred insolence.






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






11. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






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






13. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






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






15. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






16. I think; therefore I am.






17. 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.






18. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






19. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: _____ let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






20. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






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






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






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






24. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






25. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






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






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






28. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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






30. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






31. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






32. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






33. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






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






35. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






36. 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.






37. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






38. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






39. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






40. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






41. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






42. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






43. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






44. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






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






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






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






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






49. Time makes more converts than reason.






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







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