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Famous Quotes Trivia

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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. Phyllis Diller said: _____ while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






2. Abraham Lincoln said: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - _____ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






3. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






4. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






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






6. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






7. 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; _____






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






9. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






10. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






11. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






12. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






14. To find yourself - think for yourself.






15. Aldous Huxley said: _____ is another planets hell.






16. He not busy being born is busy dying.






17. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






18. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






19. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






20. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves - or rather - loved in spite of ourselves.






21. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






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






23. In any moment of decision - the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.






24. Vince Lombardi said: _____ Unfortunately - so is losing.






25. I can picture in my mind a world without war - a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world - because theyd never expect it.






26. Friendship is unnecessary - like philosophy - like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






27. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






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






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






30. An unexamined life is not worth living.






31. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






32. I am not young enough to know everything.






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






34. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






35. The heart has its reasons - which reason does not know.






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






37. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






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






39. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






40. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






41. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






42. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






43. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.






44. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






45. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions - their lives a mimicry - their passions a quotation.






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






47. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






48. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






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






50. Black holes are where God divided by zero.