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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. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






2. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






3. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






4. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






5. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






6. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






7. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






8. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






9. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






10. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






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






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






13. I know God will not give me anything I cant handle. I just wish that He didnt trust me so much.






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






15. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






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






17. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






18. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






19. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






20. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






21. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






22. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






23. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






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






25. Without music - life would be a mistake.






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






27. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






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






29. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






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






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






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






33. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






34. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






35. Aristotle said: Hope _____






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






37. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






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






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






40. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






41. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






42. Peace - commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.






43. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






44. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






45. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






46. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






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






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






49. He not busy being born is busy dying.






50. I may be drunk - Miss - but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.