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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. Glory is fleeting - but obscurity is forever.






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






3. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






4. Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.






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






6. A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense - and is - thereby - a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.






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






8. The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - peace at any price - safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






9. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth - upon this continent - a new nation - conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.






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






11. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.






12. Theodore Roosevelt said: The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price - _____ safety first instead of duty first - the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.






13. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






14. He not busy being born is busy dying.






15. Love all - trust a few - do wrong to none.






16. I can resist everything except temptation.






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






18. Thomas Paine said: Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom _____ undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






19. Genius is one per cent inspiration - ninety-nine per cent perspiration.






20. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.






21. 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.






22. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






23. Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.






24. C. S. Lewis said: Friendship is unnecessary - _____ like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.






25. I was angry with my friend I told my wrath - my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe - I told it not - my wrath did grow.






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






27. I have not failed. Ive just found 10000 ways that wont work.






28. If we all did the things we are capable of doing - we would literally astound ourselves.






29. Mother Teresa said: Intense love does not measure - _____






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






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






32. Science without religion is lame - religion without science is blind.






33. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.






34. What is now proved was once only imagined.






35. Voltaire said: _____ playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.






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






37. Do what you can - with what you have - where you are.






38. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






39. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately - no one knows what they are.






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






41. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






42. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If They're okay - then its you.






43. Muhammad Ali said: Float like a butterfly - _____






44. on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan - Now - now my good man - this is no time for making enemies.






45. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.






46. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.






47. When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not guilty.






48. Ill be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when theres evidence of any thinking going on inside it.






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






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