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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. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






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






3. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






4. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






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






6. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






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






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






9. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






10. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






11. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






12. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






13. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






14. Mark Twain said: _____ this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






15. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






16. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






17. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






18. 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.






19. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






20. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






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






22. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






23. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






24. 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.






25. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






26. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






27. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






28. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






29. 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.






30. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






31. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






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






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






34. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






35. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






36. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






37. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






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






39. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






40. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






41. 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.






42. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






43. 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






44. If you are going through hell - keep going.






45. You may delay - but time will not.






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






47. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






48. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






49. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






50. There are no facts - only interpretations.







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