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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. To invent - you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.






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






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






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






5. Francis Bacon said: A wise man will make more opportunities - _____






6. It aint over till its over.






7. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because - if there be one - he must more approve of the homage of reason - than that of blind-folded fear.






8. 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.






9. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






10. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






14. 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.






15. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






16. 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.






17. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






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






19. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






20. An unexamined life is not worth living.






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






22. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






23. To announce that there must be no criticism of the president - or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong - is not only unpatriotic and servile - but is morally treasonable to the American public.






24. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious _____






25. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






26. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






27. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world - and moral courage so rare.






28. There is nothing so powerful as truth -- and often nothing so strange.






29. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.






30. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






31. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.






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






33. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






34. 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.






35. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldnt read.






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






37. Be thankful were not getting all the government were paying for.






38. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






39. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






40. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






41. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






42. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






43. All great truths begin as blasphemies.






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






45. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






46. I sent the club a wire stating - PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I Don't WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.






47. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






48. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






49. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






50. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.