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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. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






2. Wit is well-bred insolence.






3. Rene Descartes said: _____ therefore I am.






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






5. George Bernard Shaw said: _____ begin as blasphemies.






6. William Shakespeare said: _____ to thine own self be true - and it must follow - as the night the day - thou canst not then be false to any man.






7. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss - the abyss gazes also into you.






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






9. You cant depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.






10. 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.






11. Oscar Wilde said: I can resist everything _____






12. The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses - behind the lines - in the gym - and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.






13. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - gobble their food - and tyrannize their teachers.






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






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






16. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.






17. 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.






18. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; _____ friend to one; enemy to none.






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






20. Bertrand Russell said: Most people would die sooner than think -- _____






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






22. Mae West said: Too much of a good thing _____






23. And the cost of a thing it will be remembered is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.






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






25. 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.






26. Bob Dylan said: He not busy being born _____






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






28. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






29. Saint Augustine said: The World is a book - and those who do not travel _____






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






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






32. Suppose you were an idiot... and suppose you were a member of Congress. ..but I repeat myself.






33. Theodore Roosevelt said: When they call the roll in the Senate - the Senators do not know whether to answer Present _____






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






35. God whispers to us in our pleasures - speaks in our conscience - but shouts in our pains - it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.






36. If ever time should come - when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government - our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.






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






38. I am extraordinarily patient - provided I get my own way in the end.






39. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.






40. If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.






41. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






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






43. When you play - play hard; when you work - Don't play at all.






44. How do you tell a Communist? Well - its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.






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






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






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






48. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






49. Speak softly and carry a big stick.






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