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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. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____






2. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.






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






4. 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.






5. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____






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






7. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






8. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






9. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






10. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






11. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






12. 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.






13. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






14. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






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






16. 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.






17. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






18. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






19. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






20. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






21. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






22. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






23. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






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






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






27. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






28. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






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






30. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






31. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






32. There are no facts - only interpretations.






33. You may delay - but time will not.






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






35. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ 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 de






36. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - _____ I conquered.)






37. 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.






38. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






39. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






40. Wisdom begins in wonder.






41. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






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






43. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






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






45. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.