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






2. If music be the food of love - play on.






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






4. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






5. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






6. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






7. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.






8. It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.






9. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






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






11. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority - its time to pause and reflect.






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






13. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.






14. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.






15. 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.






16. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.






17. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






18. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






19. 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.






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






21. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






22. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






23. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






24. 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.






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






26. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






27. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






28. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






29. The chief business of the American people is business.






30. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.






31. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






32. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






33. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






34. I'm not a member of any organized political party - I'm a Democrat!






35. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






36. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






37. I Don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.






38. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






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






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






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






42. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






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






44. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






45. Pablo Picasso said: _____ who transform the sun into a yellow spot - but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence - transform a yellow spot into the sun.






46. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






47. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






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






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






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