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






2. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.






3. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






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






5. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






6. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






7. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






8. 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.






9. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






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






11. Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.






12. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






13. When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. Thats relativity.






14. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






15. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






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






17. Yogi Berra said: Nobody goes there anymore; _____






18. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






19. Its kind of fun to do the impossible.






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






21. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






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






23. Men occasionally stumble over the truth - but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.






24. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






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






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






27. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






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






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






30. 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.






31. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.






32. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






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






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






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






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






37. Yoda said: _____ There is no try.






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






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






40. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






41. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






42. 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.






43. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






44. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






45. 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.






46. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






47. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






48. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.






49. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder - but when you do - it blows away your whole leg.






50. There are two ways of spreading light-- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.