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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. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






2. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






3. Aristotle said: _____ is well-bred insolence.






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






5. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






6. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






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






8. John Donne said: Any mans death diminishes me - because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; _____






9. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






10. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






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






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






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






14. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






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






16. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






17. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






18. Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases. If it moves - tax it. If it keeps moving - regulate it. And if it stops moving - subsidize it.






19. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






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






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

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22. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






23. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






24. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






25. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






26. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






27. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






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






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






30. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






31. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






32. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Pe






33. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






34. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






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






36. _____ is known for citing from the Bhagavad Gita - after witnessing the worlds first nuclear explosion - Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds.






37. If music be the food of love - play on.






38. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






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






40. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






42. William Shakespeare said: Love all - _____ do wrong to none.






43. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






44. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






45. He is richest who is content with the least.






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






47. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






48. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






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






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