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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. George Bernard Shaw said: You see things; _____ But I dream things that never were; and I sayWhy not?






2. Theodore Roosevelt said: _____ and carry a big stick.






3. Benjamin Franklin said: Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; _____






4. When I was a boy of 14 - my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21 - I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.






5. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - and in that faith - _____ dare to do our duty as we understand it.






6. 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.






7. Nobody goes there anymore; its too crowded.






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






9. Men are disturbed - not by things - but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.






10. I heartily accept the motto - That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out - it finally amounts to this - which also I believe --%That government is best which gover






11. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.






12. Socrates said: Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents - _____ and tyrannize their teachers.






13. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.






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






15. Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.






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






17. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






18. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools - because they have to say something.






19. Any fool can make a rule. And any fool will mind it.






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






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






22. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?






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






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






25. Abraham Lincoln said: Let us have faith that right makes might - _____ let us - to the end - dare to do our duty as we understand it.






26. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for thats the stuff life is made of.






27. Software is like sex. It is better when its free.






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






29. Aristotle said: _____ dwelling in two bodies.






30. Walt Disney said: _____ to do the impossible.






31. The World is a book - and those who do not travel read only a page.






32. Thomas Paine said: Time makes more converts _____






33. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






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






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






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






37. Eighty percent of success is showing up.






38. My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife youll be happy; if not youll become a philosopher.






39. 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






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






41. I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.






42. Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.






43. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.






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






45. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 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 derelicts. Pe






46. 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.






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






48. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






49. I Don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.






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