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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. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






2. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which one's to keep.






3. ____ said: We are half-hearted creatures - fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us - like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a h






4. 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?






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






6. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.






7. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






8. I am an old man and have known a great many troubles - but most of them never happened.






9. Give me the liberty to know - to utter - and to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties.






10. Stephen King said: Get busy living - _____






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






12. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






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






14. It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion - however satisfying and reassuring.






15. Friedrich Nietzsche said: _____ only interpretations.






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






17. Always do right-- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.






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






19. Franklin D. Roosevelt said: So - first of all - let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear _____ nameless - unreasoning - unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.






20. Never look down on anybody unless youre helping him up.






21. Socrates said: _____ in wonder.






22. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






23. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






24. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






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






26. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






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






28. Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.






29. Go to Heaven for the climate - Hell for the company.






30. I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own - so both of them together is certain death.






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






32. 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.






33. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.






34. A witty saying proves nothing.






35. Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future.






36. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






37. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






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






39. Muhammad Ali said: The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - _____ in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






40. Isaac Asimov said: _____ Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






41. 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.






42. Jimi Hendrix said: _____ but wisdom listens.






43. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






44. William Blake said: _____ was once only imagined.






45. Yogi Berra said: When you come to a fork in the road - _____






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






47. The fool doth think he is wise - but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.






48. He who controls the present - controls the past. He who controls the past - controls the future.






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






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