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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. 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.






2. I can resist everything except temptation.






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. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.






5. Bob Dylan said: _____ it swears.






6. Yogi Berra said: It aint over _____






7. Winston Churchill said: I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me _____






8. 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.






9. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.






10. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






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






12. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






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






14. Isaac Asimov said: Life is pleasant. _____ Its the transition thats troublesome.






15. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






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






17. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






18. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






19. 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.






20. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. It is those who know little - not those who know much - who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.






21. Kind words can be short and easy to speak - but their echoes are truly endless.






22. Time makes more converts than reason.






23. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






24. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






25. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






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






27. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.






28. 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.






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






30. Well done is better than well said.






31. 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.






32. Alexander Pope said: _____ where angels fear to tread.






33. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately - so is losing.






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






35. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






36. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






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






38. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






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






40. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






41. Alan Kay said: The best way to predict the future _____






42. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






43. Its not the size of the dog in the fight - its the size of the fight in the dog.






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






45. Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.






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






47. Will Rogers said: I'm not a member of any organized political party - _____


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






49. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.






50. 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.