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






2. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






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






4. If music be the food of love - play on.






5. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






6. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






7. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






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






9. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






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






11. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






12. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






13. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






14. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






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






16. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






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






18. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






19. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






21. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






22. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






23. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






24. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






25. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






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






27. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






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






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






30. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






31. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






35. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






36. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






37. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






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






39. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.






40. Wisdom begins in wonder.






41. 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.






42. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






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






44. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






45. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st






46. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






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






48. 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.






49. This is like deja vu all over again.






50. A witty saying proves nothing.