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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. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






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






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






4. Aristotle said: Hope _____






5. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all.






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






7. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.






8. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure - and make war that we may live in peace.






9. Stephen King said: _____ or get busy dying.






10. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






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






12. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






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






14. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






15. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






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






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






18. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






19. I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image.






20. ____ said: I do not know what I may appear to the world - but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore - and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary - whilst the great






21. 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






22. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






24. Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.






25. Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - meet any hardship - support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






26. Socrates said: _____ who is content with the least.






27. I am not young enough to know everything.






28. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch - you must first invent the universe.






29. John F. Kennedy said: Let every nation know - whether it wishes us well or ill - that we shall pay any price - bear any burden - _____ support any friend - oppose any foe - in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.






30. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written - or badly written.






31. Albert Einstein said: When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour - it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and its longer than any hour. _____






32. Baseball is 90% mental - the other half is physical.






33. All the worlds a stage - and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances - and one man in his time plays many parts - his acts being seven ages.






34. 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.






35. I have nothing to offer but blood - toil - tears and sweat.






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






37. Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.






38. Socialism is a philosophy of failure - the creed of ignorance - and the gospel of envy - its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.






39. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






40. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.






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






42. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






43. Mark Twain said: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. _____






44. A wise man will make more opportunities - than he finds.






45. ob Dylan said: Money doesnt talk - _____






46. Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.






47. The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step.






48. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.






49. Calvin Coolidge said: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. _____ nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated de






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