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






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






3. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






4. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






5. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






6. The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil - but because of the people who Don't do anything about it.






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






8. Calvin Coolidge said: _____ of the American people is business.






9. Black holes are where God divided by zero.






10. Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.






11. George Bernard Shaw said: Life does not cease to be funny _____ any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






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






13. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.






14. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy - the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.






15. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.






16. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






17. Robert Heinlein said: Women and cats will do as they please - _____ should relax and get used to the idea.






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






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






20. Life is what happens to you while youre busy making other plans.






21. Julius Caesar said: Veni - vidi - vici _____ I saw - I conquered.)






22. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams - and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined - he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.






23. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.






24. William Shakespeare said: _____ trust a few - do wrong to none.






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






26. If liberty means anything at all - it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.






27. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






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






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






30. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.






31. Have you ever noticed - in traffic - anybody going slower than you is an idiot - and anyone going faster than you is a maniac!






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






33. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






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






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






36. Fear is the main source of superstition - and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom - in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life.






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






38. We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.






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






40. Money is better than poverty - if only for financial reasons.






41. Calvin Coolidge said: The chief business of the American people _____






42. ____ 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






43. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.






44. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






45. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great - some achieve greatness - and some have greatness thrust upon em.






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






47. Socrates said: To find yourself - _____






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






49. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






50. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.






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