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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. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






2. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses - reason - and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.






3. If you woud not be forgotten - As soon as you are dead and rotten - Either write things worth reading - Or do things worth the writing.






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






5. Muhammad Ali said: _____ when you cant think of a good answer.






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






7. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






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






10. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






11. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






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






13. If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infants life - she will choose to save the infants life without even considering if there are men on base.






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






15. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






16. History will be kind to me - for I intend to write it.






17. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






18. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






19. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






20. Do - or do not. There is no try.






21. 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






22. How happy is the blameless Vestals lot! The world forgetting - by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayr accepted - and each wish resignd.






23. 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.






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






25. History doesnt repeat itself - but it does rhyme.






26. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






27. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






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






29. It aint what you Don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just aint so.






30. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






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






32. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






33. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






34. 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.






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






36. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






37. You can say any foolish thing to a dog - and the dog will give you a look that says - My God - youre right! I never wouldve thought of that!






38. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






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






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






41. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






42. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.






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






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






45. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






46. It aint over till its over.






47. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






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






49. In the councils of government - we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence - whether sought or unsought - by the military-industrial complex.






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