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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. Hell - there are no rules here - were trying to accomplish something.






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






3. Socrates said: _____ is not worth living.






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






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






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






7. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.






8. Socrates said: Wisdom begins _____






9. 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.






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






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






12. You may delay - but time will not.






13. Louis Pasteur said: _____ the prepared mind.






14. There are only two tragedies in life. One is not getting what one wants - and the other is getting it.






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






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






17. If you are going through hell - keep going.






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






19. Plato said: You can discover more about a person _____ than in a year of conversation.






20. Alexander Pope said: _____ to forgive is divine.






21. Benjamin Franklin said: _____ than well said.






22. Voltaire said: A witty saying _____






23. James Branch Cabell said: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; _____ fears this is true.






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






25. Socrates said: _____ think for yourself.






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






27. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






28. Robert Heinlein said: _____ will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






29. Mother Teresa said: Peace begins _____






30. 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.






31. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.






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






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






34. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






35. Yogi Berra said: _____ till its over.






36. Chance favors the prepared mind.






37. H. M. Warner said: _____ to hear actors talk?






38. 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.






39. You got to be careful if you Don't know where youre going - because you might not get there.






40. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






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






42. Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.






43. True friends stab you in the front.






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






45. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion - for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.






46. To find yourself - think for yourself.






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






48. 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.






49. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.






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