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Famous Quotes Trivia

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. riedrich Nietzsche said: _____ life would be a mistake.






2. Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.






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






4. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must - like men - undergo the fatigue of supporting it.






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






6. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly - while bad people will find a way around the laws.






7. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.






8. Albert Einstein said: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot - but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the old one. _____ am convinced that He doe






9. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






10. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety - deserve neither liberty nor safety.






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






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






13. There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here - it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that






14. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: The only way to have a friend _____






15. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






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






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






18. Winston Churchill said: I have nothing to offer _____ tears and sweat.






19. 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.






20. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.






21. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






22. I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names areWhat andWhy and When AndHow andWhere andWho.






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






24. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.






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






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






27. Voltaire said: _____ proves nothing.






28. I think; therefore I am.






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






30. when rejecting the Beatles in 1962 - We Don't like their sound - and guitar music is on the way out.






31. Don't knock masturbation; its sex with someone I love.






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






33. Time makes more converts than reason.






34. John Wooden said: _____ with your character than your reputation - because your character is what you really are - while your reputation is merely what others think you are.






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






36. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.






37. A stupid mans report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.






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






39. Mr. Gorbachev - open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev - tear down this wall!






40. Napoleon Bonaparte said: _____ is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.






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






42. George Washington said: Government is not reason - it is not eloquence -- _____ Like fire - it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.






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






44. Education is an admirable thing - but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.






45. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ but time will not.






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






47. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.






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






49. 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.






50. Forgive your enemies - but never forget their names.