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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. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






2. A witty saying proves nothing.






3. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






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






5. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






6. 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.






7. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






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






9. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






10. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






11. Well done is better than well said.






12. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






13. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






14. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






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






17. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






18. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






19. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet - clumsily or smoothly - the world - it seems - progresses and will progress.






20. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






21. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






22. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






23. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






24. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






25. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






26. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






27. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






28. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






29. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






30. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






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






32. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






33. Do - or do not. There is no try.






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






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






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






37. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






38. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






39. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






40. True friends stab you in the front.






41. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






42. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






43. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






44. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






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






46. 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.






47. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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48. An unexamined life is not worth living.






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






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