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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. Plato said: _____ for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






2. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep - so life well used brings happy death.






3. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.






4. Wit is well-bred insolence.






5. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






6. ____ said: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.






7. 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.






8. 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






9. There is only one good - knowledge - and one evil - ignorance.






10. 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.






11. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






12. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.






13. When you come to a fork in the road - take it.






14. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






15. Obstacles Don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall - Don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it - go through it - or work around it.






16. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.






17. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






18. Aldous Huxley said: _____ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.






19. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






20. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ with what you have - where you are.






21. Thomas Edison said: _____ Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






22. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; _____ an intolerable one.






23. Rene Descartes said: I think; _____






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






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






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






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






28. To be - or not to be - That is the question.






29. If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us - shall we not revenge?






30. There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.






31. This is like deja vu all over again.






32. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.






33. 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.






34. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






35. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






36. It aint over till its over.






37. Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- it is force! Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






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






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






40. When men yield up the privilege of thinking - the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.






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






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






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






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






45. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






46. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






47. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another - _____ I thought I was the only one!






48. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.






49. John Donne said: No man is an island - _____ every man is a piece of the continent.






50. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____