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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. Hope is a waking dream.






2. He not busy being born is busy dying.






3. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






4. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






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






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






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






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






10. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






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






12. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






13. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






14. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






15. To find yourself - think for yourself.






16. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






17. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






18. Do - or do not. There is no try.






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






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






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






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






23. Those who deny freedom to others - deserve it not for themselves; and - under a just God - can not long retain it.






24. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.






25. 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.






26. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






27. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






28. ____ 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






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






30. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; _____ enemy to none.






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






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






33. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






34. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






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






36. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






37. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____






38. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






39. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____






40. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






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






42. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






43. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






44. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






45. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






46. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.






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






48. You may delay - but time will not.






49. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






50. 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.