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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






2. Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.






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






4. 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.






5. 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






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






7. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






8. 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.






9. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






10. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






11. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






12. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






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






15. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! _____ it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






16. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






17. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






18. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






19. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






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






21. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






22. If winning isnt everything - why do they keep score?






23. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






24. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






25. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






26. An unexamined life is not worth living.






27. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






28. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ is the ultimate sophistication.






29. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






31. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






32. You may delay - but time will not.






33. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






34. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






35. Every gun that is made - every warship launched - every rocket fired - signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed - those who are cold and are not clothed.






36. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






37. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






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






39. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






40. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






41. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






42. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






43. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






44. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






45. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






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






47. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






48. You may delay - but time will not.






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






50. 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.