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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. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






2. After silence - that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






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






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






5. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.






6. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






7. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






8. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






9. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






10. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






11. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






12. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






13. 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.






14. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






15. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






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. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






18. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






19. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.






20. Never trust a computer you cant throw out a window.






21. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






22. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






23. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






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






31. 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.






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






33. I can resist everything except temptation.






34. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






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






36. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.






37. Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - an intolerable one.






38. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






39. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






40. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






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






42. If you are going through hell - keep going.






43. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






44. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.






45. All our dreams can come true-- if we have the courage to pursue them.






46. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






47. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






48. What is now proved was once only imagined.






49. If you tell the truth - you Don't have to remember anything.






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







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