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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. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






2. 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.






3. He who is not contented with what he has - would not be contented with what he would like to have.






4. You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?






5. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






6. To err is human; to forgive is divine.






7. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






8. In times like these - it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.






9. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






10. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






11. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






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






13. We are what we pretend to be - so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.






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






15. 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.






16. Humor is the great thing - the saving thing. The minute it crops up - all our irritation and resentments slip away - and a sunny spirit takes their place.






17. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






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






19. The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. Tis dearness only that gives everything its value.






20. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.






21. I can resist everything except temptation.






22. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






23. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - _____






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






25. 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.






26. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






27. Louis Pasteur said: Chance favors _____






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






29. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.






30. History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.






31. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.






32. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






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






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






35. Government is not a solution to our problem - government is the problem.






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






37. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ but obscurity is forever.






38. Leonardo da Vinci said: _____ does not work with the hand - there is no art.






39. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.






40. There are no facts - only interpretations.






41. We have just enough religion to make us hate - but not enough to make us love one another.






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






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






44. We make a living by what we get - but we make a life by what we give.






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






46. You cant build a reputation on what you are going to do.






47. ____ 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






48. Julius Caesar said: _____ vidi - vici (I came - I saw - I conquered.)






49. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.






50. Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.