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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. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






2. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






3. Aristotle said: Hope _____






4. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






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






6. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






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






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






9. 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; _____






10. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






11. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






12. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






13. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






14. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






15. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






16. What is now proved was once only imagined.






17. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






18. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






19. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






20. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






21. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






22. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






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






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






25. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






29. 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.






30. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






31. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






32. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






33. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






34. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






35. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






36. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






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






38. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






39. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






40. To find yourself - think for yourself.






41. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






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






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






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






45. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






46. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






47. 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.






48. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






49. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






50. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






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