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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. This above all. To thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






2. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.






3. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






4. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






5. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






6. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






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






8. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






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






10. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






11. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






12. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






13. 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.






14. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






15. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____

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






17. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






18. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






19. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






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






21. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






22. 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.






23. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






24. Oscar Wilde said: I am not young enough _____






25. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






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






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






28. He not busy being born is busy dying.






29. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






30. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






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






32. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






33. Ask not what your country can do for you-- ask what you can do for your country.






34. 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.






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






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






37. Thomas Paine said: _____ makes more converts than reason.






38. Veni - vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






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






41. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






42. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






43. Well done is better than well said.






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






45. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






46. Genius without education is like silver in the mine.






47. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






48. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






49. Chance favors the prepared mind.






50. 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.