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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. The only way to keep your health is to eat what you Don't want - drink what you Don't like - and do what youd rather not.






2. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






3. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






4. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






5. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






6. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






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






8. Money doesnt talk - it swears.






9. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






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






11. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






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






13. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






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






15. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.






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






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






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






19. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






20. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






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






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






23. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






24. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






25. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






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






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






34. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






35. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






36. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






37. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






38. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






39. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






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






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






42. 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.






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






44. You may delay - but time will not.






45. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.






46. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






47. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






48. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






49. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






50. 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.