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






2. Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.






3. Bertrand Russell said: A stupid mans report of what a clever man says _____ because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






4. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






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






6. When a true genius appears in the world - you may know him by this sign - that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.






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






8. Without music - life would be a mistake.






9. What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly.






10. An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.






11. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






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






13. Aristotle said: _____ is a waking dream.






14. Richard P. Feynman said: _____ is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.






15. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






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






17. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






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






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






20. Hope is a waking dream.






21. If we have no peace - it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.






22. Wit is well-bred insolence.






23. People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I Don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want - and - if they cant find them - make them.






24. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; _____






25. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






26. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






27. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.






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






29. Julius Caesar said: Veni - _____ vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






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






31. True friends stab you in the front.






32. Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.






33. Benjamin Franklin said: Well done is better _____






34. If you are going through hell - keep going.






35. Get busy living - or get busy dying.






36. Benjamin Franklin said: You may delay - _____






37. We didnt lose the game; we just ran out of time.






38. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






39. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






40. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






41. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






42. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.






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






44. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






45. Jean-Paul Sartre said: So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember. The fire and brimstone - the torture. _____ There is no need for torture. Hell is other people.






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






47. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist _____






48. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






49. ____ 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






50. 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