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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. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






2. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






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






4. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






5. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






6. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






7. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.






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






9. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






10. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






11. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






12. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






13. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






14. John Milton said: Give me the liberty to know - _____ and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






15. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






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






17. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






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






19. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






20. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






21. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






22. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






23. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






24. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






25. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






26. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






27. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






28. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.






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






30. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






31. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






32. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






33. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






34. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






35. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






36. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






37. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






38. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






39. Wisdom begins in wonder.






40. 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.






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






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






43. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






44. 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.






45. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






46. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






47. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






48. There are no facts - only interpretations.






49. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






50. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






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