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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. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






2. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






3. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






4. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






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






6. 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.






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






8. An unexamined life is not worth living.






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






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






11. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






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






13. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






14. There are painters 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.






15. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






16. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






17. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






18. Peace begins with a smile.






19. True friends stab you in the front.






20. 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.






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






22. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






23. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.






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






25. 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?






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






27. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






28. Copy from one - its plagiarism; copy from two - its research.






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






30. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






31. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






32. More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness - the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.






33. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






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






35. 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.






36. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






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






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






39. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






40. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






41. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






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






43. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






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






45. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






46. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






47. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






49. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






50. 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