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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. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






2. 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.






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






5. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






6. The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not Eureka! - but Thats funny ...






7. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






9. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






10. Mahatma Gandhi said: _____ will make the whole world blind.






11. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






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






13. 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.






14. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






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






16. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






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






18. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






19. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






20. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






21. A witty saying proves nothing.






22. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






23. I think; therefore I am.






24. 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. Thats relativity.






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






26. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






27. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






28. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?






29. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.






30. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






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






32. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






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






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






35. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






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






37. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






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






39. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






40. 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.






41. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






42. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






43. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






44. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






45. 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.






46. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






47. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






48. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






49. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






50. 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.






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