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Famous Quotes Trivia
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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. 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.
Is fear itself
Albert Einstein
Will Rogers
Mark Twain
2. The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Kahlil Gibran
George Carlin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom begins
3. There are no facts - only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Kurt Vonnegut
Mark Twain
Robert Heinlein
4. 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.
Like fire -
It just gives.
Pablo Picasso
Be more concerned
5. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Thomas Edison
W. Somerset Maugham
Thomas Paine
Keep going.
6. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Edison
Mark Twain
Winning is a habit.
7. Get busy living - or get busy dying.
Rene Descartes
Charles Darwin
Stephen King
Do what you can -
8. 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.
Albert Einstein
Richard P. Feynman
Alexander Pope
Is to invent it.
9. Thomas Edison said: To invent - you need a good imagination _____
Mother Teresa
And a pile of junk.
So - first of all -
Stephen King
10. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winston Churchill
Muhammad Ali
William Shakespeare
11. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)
Peter Drucker
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cleaning your house
(I came -
12. A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
Bill Gates
Eleanor Roosevelt
George S. Patton
Benjamin Franklin
13. Thomas Paine said: Time _____ than reason.
Oscar Wilde
Makes more converts
Richard P. Feynman
Niels Bohr
14. To find yourself - think for yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Voltaire
Socrates
Aristotle
15. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
I saw -
Mark Twain
Like philosophy -
With a smile.
16. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
It tolls for thee.
John Wooden
Is a waking dream.
Mark Twain
17. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
James Branch Cabell
Albert Einstein
Napoleon Bonaparte
Aldous Huxley
18. I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Plato
Like fire -
Oscar Wilde
19. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Linus Torvalds
Yogi Berra
Plato
20. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Leonardo da Vinci
Theodore Roosevelt
21. Our new Constitution is now established - and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain - except death and taxes.
Mark Twain
Benjamin Franklin
Vince Lombardi
Yogi Berra
22. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.
Mother Teresa
Knowledge speaks -
And the pessimist
Vince Lombardi
23. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.
Mark Twain
Like philosophy -
Thomas Jefferson
G. K. Chesterton
24. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Therefore I am.
William Shakespeare
There is no try.
Bertrand Russell
25. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Groucho Marx
Woody Allen
Muhammad Ali
Stephen Hawking
26. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Tears and sweat.
With a smile.
George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Edison
27. Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle
John Milton
Aldous Huxley
Like art...
28. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root - and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strive
Keep going.
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Aristotle
29. Where the spirit does not work with the hand - there is no art.
Wernher Von Braun
Will Durant
HenryFord
Leonardo da Vinci
30. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.
Mark Twain
Yogi Berra
Henry David Thoreau
And you say Why?
31. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Jonathan Swift
Mother Teresa
George Carlin
Friedrich Nietzsche
32. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy
Socrates
Mark Twain
I hate quotations.
33. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
And men and dogs
George Carlin
Thomas Edison
34. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
Isaac Asimov
Well done is better
Mark Twain
35. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
With the very best.
Do - or do not.
Benjamin Franklin
Aldous Huxley
36. He not busy being born is busy dying.
Thomas Jefferson
Glory is fleeting -
Isaac Newton
Bob Dylan
37. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.
Mark Twain
To err is human;
In its worst state -
Death is peaceful.
38. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
And the Universe
John F. Kennedy
Is to be one.
Sun Tzu
39. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.
Steven Wright
Carl Sagan
Marcel Proust
Napoleon Bonaparte
40. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.
To find yourself -
Keep going.
Mother Teresa
Carl Sagan
41. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
Vidi -
Winning is a habit.
Emily Dickinson
42. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I conquered.)
George Bernard Shaw
Scott Adams
Makes more converts
43. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.
George Washington
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Robert Oppenheimer
44. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.
Ansel Adams
Henry David Thoreau
Benjamin Franklin
Sam Brown
45. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h
John F. Kennedy
Proves nothing.
Is busy dying.
C. S. Lewis
46. G. K. Chesterton said: An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience _____
John Donne
Linus Torvalds
Rightly considered.
Richard Nixon
47. 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.
Mark Twain
In the gym -
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
48. Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Mark Twain
All over again.
Abraham Lincoln
I have not failed.
49. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Isaac Asimov
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Levant
Abraham Lincoln
50. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.
Winning is a habit.
Isaac Asimov
Wilson Mizner
Voltaire