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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. No man is an island - entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.






2. Winston Churchill said: Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - _____ is the equal sharing of misery.






3. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.






4. An unexamined life is not worth living.






5. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






6. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






7. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






12. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






13. It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.






14. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






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






16. 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.






17. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






19. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






20. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves - or we know where we can find information upon it.






21. I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.






22. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






23. Even if you are on the right track - youll get run over if you just sit there.






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






25. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






26. Wit is well-bred insolence.






27. 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.






28. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






29. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






30. ____ said: It is not from the benevolence of the butcher - the brewer - or the baker - that we expect our dinner - but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves - not to their humanity but to their self-love - and never talk






31. Winston Churchill said: If you are going through hell - _____






32. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






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






34. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






35. Isaac Asimov said: The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - _____ - but Thats funny ...






36. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






37. 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.






38. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful - committed people can change the world.Indeed - it is the only thing that ever has.






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






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






41. I am not afraid of death - I just Don't want to be there when it happens.






42. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.






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






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






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






46. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






47. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






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






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






50. 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.