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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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: If music be the food of love - _____






2. 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.






3. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






4. It does not require a majority to prevail - but rather an irate - tireless minority keen to set brush fires in peoples minds.






5. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






6. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.






7. 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.






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






9. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






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






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






12. It aint over till its over.






13. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - What! You too? I thought I was the only one!






14. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






15. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






16. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






17. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you Don't mind - it doesnt matter.






18. 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.






19. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






20. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






21. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






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






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






24. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






25. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






26. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






27. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






28. Blessed is the man - who having nothing to say - abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.






29. 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. _____






30. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






31. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






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






33. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






34. ____ 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






35. Once you have flown - you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards - for there you have been - and there you long to return.






36. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






37. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer _____ or Not guilty.






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






39. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






40. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






41. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






42. He not busy being born is busy dying.






43. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






44. What is now proved was once only imagined.






45. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.






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






47. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.






48. Yogi Berra said: This is like deja vu _____






49. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.






50. 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.







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