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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. Theodore Roosevelt said: Do what you can - with what you have - _____






2. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






3. An unexamined life is not worth living.






4. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.






5. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






6. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






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






8. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - _____ (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






9. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






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






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






12. I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just - that His justice cannot sleep forever.






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






14. 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.






15. A single soul dwelling in two bodies.






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






17. If you Don't know where you are going - any road will get you there.






18. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.






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


20. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that - but the really great make you feel that you - too - can become great.






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






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






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






24. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






25. Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.






26. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






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






28. Hope is a waking dream.






29. There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.






30. 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.






31. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






36. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






37. Intense love does not measure - it just gives.






38. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






39. Maybe this world is another planets hell.






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






41. When choosing between two evils - I always like to try the one Ive never tried before.






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






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






44. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.






45. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






46. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






47. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






48. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.






49. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






50. I am always doing that which I can not do - in order that I may learn how to do it.