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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. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






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






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






4. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






5. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






6. Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.






7. 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.






8. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






9. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - _____ and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






10. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






11. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






12. 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.






13. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






14. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






15. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






16. 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.






17. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






18. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






19. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






20. Woody Allen said: Eighty percent of success _____






21. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






22. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






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






24. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






25. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.






26. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






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






28. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - _____ where you are.






29. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






30. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






31. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






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






33. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






34. You may delay - but time will not.






35. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






36. Mark Twain said: Clothes make the man. _____ little or no influence on society.






37. Hope is a waking dream.






38. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts - then there is no hurt - but only more love.






39. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






41. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.






42. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






43. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






44. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






45. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






46. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h






47. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






48. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






49. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






50. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.