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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. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






2. The only way to have a friend is to be one.






3. There are no facts - only interpretations.






4. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






5. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.






6. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






7. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






8. 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.






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






10. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






11. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






12. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.






13. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.






14. To find yourself - think for yourself.






15. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






16. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






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






18. I am easily satisfied with the very best.






19. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






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






21. 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.






22. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






23. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






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






25. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






26. 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.






27. Wit is well-bred insolence.






28. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive






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






30. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






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






33. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






34. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






35. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






36. He not busy being born is busy dying.






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






38. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






39. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






40. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






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






45. ____ 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






46. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____






47. 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.






48. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






49. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






50. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.