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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
T. S. Eliot
C. S. Lewis
Benjamin Franklin
2. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____
Think for yourself.
C. S. Lewis
William Shakespeare
John F. Kennedy
3. 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.
Mark Twain
True friends
Winston Churchill
Talent will not;
4. Speak softly and carry a big stick.
Entire of itself;
T. S. Eliot
Theodore Roosevelt
When people laugh.
5. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...
Is not Eureka!
Mark Twain
Thats relativity.
Ah! the farce.
6. If everything seems under control - youre just not going fast enough.
Stephen King
Yogi Berra
Mario Andretti
A new nation -
7. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Is busy dying.
Tom Clancy
Saul Bellow
Socrates
8. Without music - life would be a mistake.
Abraham Lincoln
Francis Bacon
Friedrich Nietzsche
Read only a page.
9. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
Aristotle
Wilson Mizner
Carl Sagan
Henry David Thoreau
10. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Pablo Picasso
Socrates
Adam Smith
Mark Twain
11. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
To invent -
George Carlin
Woody Allen
Isaac Asimov
12. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____
Samuel Adams
But time will not.
Muhammad Ali
Woody Allen
13. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.
An unexamined life
Its inherent virtue
Kahlil Gibran
It swears.
14. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
Is busy dying.
And the Universe
Vidi -
Gobble their food -
15. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.
All over again.
Saki
Do what you can -
John F. Kennedy
16. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Socrates
Do - or do not.
Voltaire
17. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Behind the lines -
Albert Einstein
Yogi Berra
18. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
I have not failed.
All great truths
Victor Hugo
Woody Allen
19. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.
Samuel Johnson
In its worst state -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oscar Wilde
20. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Carl Sagan
But time will not.
Thomas Edison
21. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Steven Wright
Winston Churchill
It is force!
Christopher Morley
22. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Mae West
Aristotle
Oscar Levant
23. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
Dorothy Parker
Rudyard Kipling
24. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!
Henry David Thoreau
Oscar Levant
Margaret Thatcher
Ronald Reagan
25. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
(I came -
Alexander Pope
Samuel Johnson
Mark Twain
26. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
And in that faith -
Mark Twain
Is business.
Thomas Edison
27. Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Thomas Jefferson
Walt Disney
28. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Bill Gates
Isaac Asimov
Socrates
Talent will not;
29. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - _____
Mark Twain
I conquered.)
Alexander Pope
Pablo Picasso
30. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thomas Paine
Death is peaceful.
Be more concerned
Benjamin Franklin
31. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.
Dave Barry
Vince Lombardi
And men and dogs
Albert Einstein
32. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Socrates
A single soul
Plato
John Wayne
33. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
It just gives.
Woody Allen
He is richest
So - first of all -
34. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
It just gives.
Cleaning your house
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
35. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Albert Einstein
What! You too?
Leonardo da Vinci
Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Mark Twain
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
Silence is golden
37. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.
Patrick Henry
I have not failed.
True friends
Vince Lombardi
38. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Love all -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dorothy Parker
And the Universe
39. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____
William Blake
In wonder.
Galileo Galilei
When people laugh.
40. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.
I conquered.)
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln
Oscar Wilde
41. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
Yoda
Rich Cook
Winston Churchill
Ronald Reagan
42. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
HenryFord
Kurt Vonnegut
Mark Twain
Napoleon Bonaparte
43. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____
Is busy dying.
Samuel Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt
You see things;
44. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Mother Teresa
Winston Churchill
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
45. 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.
So - first of all -
Stephen King
Cleaning your house
Yogi Berra
46. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Peace at any price -
Winston Churchill
Samuel Johnson
It was here first.
47. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)
Mark Twain
Vidi -
And a pile of junk.
Time
48. However beautiful the strategy - you should occasionally look at the results.
Yogi Berra
And I sayWhy not?
C. S. Lewis
Winston Churchill
49. 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.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
A new nation -
Is showing up.
50. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
To be the candle
John F. Kennedy
Isaac Newton
Theodore Roosevelt