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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
George Washington
Muhammad Ali
Be kind -
Plato
2. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____
Except temptation.
Robert Frost
Dorothy Parker
Mel Brooks
3. Aldous Huxley said: After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible _____
Is Music
Dorothy Parker
Lewis Carroll
Dave Barry
4. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.
Ronald Reagan
There are no facts -
Rene Descartes
Is a waking dream.
5. 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.
Bob Dylan
Winston Churchill
Samuel Adams
Mark Twain
6. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Dave Barry
After silence -
Mark Twain
Sun Tzu
7. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
The chief business
Leonardo da Vinci
8. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.
An intolerable one.
Thomas Edison
Mother Teresa
Mahatma Gandhi
9. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.
Thomas Watson
Ronald Reagan
Mark Twain
Hope
10. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
Pablo Picasso
True friends
Fools rush in
Speak softly
11. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - _____ It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Vince Lombardi
Like art...
Mark Twain
Glory is fleeting -
12. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Paine
Mark Twain
An eye for an eye
13. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.
Fears this is true.
It was here first.
Tis dearness only
Pablo Picasso
14. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.
William Shakespeare
Is another matter.
Is never accurate
Mother Teresa
15. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Mahatma Gandhi
Its too crowded.
John F. Kennedy
16. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?
Thomas Jefferson
You see things;
Yogi Berra
Vince Lombardi
17. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.
Thomas Jefferson
Is to invent it.
Mark Twain
Theodore Roosevelt
18. Physics is like sex - sure - it may give some practical results - but that is not why we do it.
Robert Frost
Richard P. Feynman
I hate quotations.
Mark Twain
19. You may delay - but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin
A single soul
Thomas Jefferson
Victor Hugo
20. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Mark Twain
And the Macintosh -
But blood - toil -
Knowledge speaks -
21. 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.
Winston Churchill
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Its too crowded.
22. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
To err is human;
Augustine
William Shakespeare
Eleanor Roosevelt
23. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Oscar Wilde
Mother Teresa
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
24. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Rightly considered.
Leonardo da Vinci
George Carlin
Will Durant
25. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.
Like art...
Will Rogers
Albert Einstein
In an hour of play
26. I can resist everything except temptation.
Is showing up.
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Henry David Thoreau
27. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____
Mark Twain
To invent -
Louis Pasteur
It just gives.
28. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Benjamin Franklin
Yogi Berra
Jesse Jackson
Winston Churchill
29. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.
Bertrand Russell
Plato
Time
Robert Oppenheimer
30. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
George Bernard Shaw
In an hour of play
31. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Than reason.
Oscar Wilde
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
32. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk
Mother Teresa
Socrates
Adam Smith
Rich Cook
33. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____
Terry Pratchett
Mark Twain
Fears this is true.
Be more concerned
34. No tears in the writer - no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer - no surprise in the reader.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Robert Frost
Play on.
Ronald Reagan
35. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Mel Brooks
Oscar Wilde
He is richest
36. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.
Benjamin Franklin
To err is human;
Alexander Pope
Daniel Webster
37. 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.
Walt Disney
Bertrand Russell
Mark Twain
Sam Brown
38. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
With what you have -
William Shakespeare
Plato
Albert Einstein
39. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
John Donne
Thomas Edison
40. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Steve Wozniak
William Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson
I conquered.)
41. Wisdom begins in wonder.
Albert Einstein
Abraham Lincoln
Socrates
Yoda
42. Peace begins with a smile.
Benjamin Franklin
William Blake
In wonder.
Mother Teresa
43. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Victor Hugo
And the pessimist
Ronald Reagan
44. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.
Thomas Watson
Time
A new nation -
Thomas Paine
45. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
Fears this is true.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rita Mae Brown
Leonardo da Vinci
46. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
George Carlin
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mahatma Gandhi
47. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Robert Kennedy
Bertrand Russell
Religion
Well done is better
48. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
C.A.R. Hoare
Silence is golden
49. To err is human; to forgive is divine.
Alexander Pope
Theodore Roosevelt
Is another matter.
Is busy dying.
50. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
Be more concerned
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle