The Datafile PD-CD 3/PDCD_3.iso/education/quote2/!Quote2/QuoteData/Complete

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Charles de Gaule said of his beloved France: 'Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 256 kinds of _____ .'
A: People ; B: Pronounciation ; C: Cheese
C
From Shakespeare's Henry V - 'Once more onto the ____ dear friends'
A: Field ; B: Breech ; C: Battle
B
George Bernard Shaw: 'Those who can do; those who cannot ____'
A: Fail ; B: Pass ; C: Teach
C
A poem by Walter de la Mare: 'Ann Ann come quick as you can;  there's a ____  that talks in the frying pan!'
A: Fish ; B: Bloke ; C: Robot
A
By the famous Anon. 'You pays your money and you takes your ____.'
A: Pick ; B: Choice ; C: Spuds
B
By Archimedes (the man not the supreme computer!): 'Eureka! I've ____ it.'
A: Hit ; B: Burnt ; C: Got
C
Francis Bacon said 'Silence is the virtue of _____.
A: Monarchs ; B: Authors ; C: Fools
C
By Oscar Wilde: 'A man cannot be too careful in his choice of ____.'
A: Wives ; B:Friends ; C: Enemies
C
Pres. Thomas Jefferson said 'Put the right man in the right ____.'
A: Place ; B: Boat ; C: Country
A
From one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories: 'You must not forget your ____.'
A: Suspenders ; B: Hat ; C: Sleep
A
Mark Twain said 'I can live for two months on a good ____.'
A: Curry ; B: Woman ; C: Compliment
C
Thomas Carlyle wrote 'I hope we English will retain our [In French] grand     talent pour le ____.'
A: Silence ; B: Cock-up ; C: Voile (Sailing)
A
Lewis Carrol wrote in a letter 'I am fond of children (except ____).'
A: Mine ; B: Boys ; C: Girls
B
Oscar Wilde wrote: 'Scepticism is the beginning of ____.'
A: Faith ; B: Life ; C: Novels
A
Benard Fontenelle said "I detest ____ ; it ruins conversation."
A: Sex ; B: War ; C: Sega's Megadrive ;
B
Alfred Hitchcock said "Television has brought _____ back into the home - where it belongs."
A: Life ; B: Murder ; C: Horror ;
B
Hiram Johnson said " The first casualty when war comes is ____ "
A: Youth ; B: Society ; C: Truth ;
C
Ramsey Macdonald said "We hear war called murder. It is not: it is ______ "
A: Justified ; B: Manslaughter ; C: Suicide ;
C
Karl Marx said " ______ is the opium of the people."
A: Opium ; B: War ; C: Religion ;
C
JA Froud said "____ is the parent of cruelty."
A: Mrs Thatcher ; B: Happiness ; C: Fear ;
C
Henry Ford said "_____ is bunk."
A: History ; B: Exercise ; C: Vauxhall ;
B
Michael Flanders said "_______ people is wrong."
A: Using ; B: Eating ; C: Kissing ;
B
Marty Feldman said "Comedy like _____ is an unnatural act."
A: Flying ; B: Singing ; C: Sodomy ;
C
Pericles said "Wait for that wisest of counsellours ______ "
A: Age ; B: Time ; C: John Major ;
B
James Otis said "No ______ please - it spoils business."
A: Shouting ; B: Praying ; C: Eating ;
B
Compte de Mirabeau said
A: True - he was deaf and dumb ; B: True - he never existed ; C: False ;
C
Compte de Mirabeau said " ______ is the national industry of Prussia."
A: Cotton ; B: Revolution ; C: War ;
C
Henry James Byron said " Life's too short for ______. "
A: Fun ; B: The living ; C: Chess ;
C
Woody Allen said " My ______ - my second favourite organ. "
A: Heart ; B: Brain ; C: Liver ;
B
Lenin said " Any _____ should be able to run the country. "
A: Man ; B: Fool ; C: Cook ;
C
Frank Loesser wrote " I'd like to get you on _________ ."
A: The floor ; B: A runaway train to Bangkok ; C: A slow boat to China ;
C
Oscar Wilde said 'I can resist anything except ____.'
A: Champagne ; B: Cadbury's chocolate ; C: Temptation
C
Samuel Butler said " The most important service rendered by the press is that of educating people to approach printed matter with ________. "
A: Caution ; B: Distrust ; C: Hatred ;
B
Erma Bombeck said " Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given _____. "
A: Permission ; B: The keys ; C: Birth ;
C
Albert Camus said " There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless _____. "
A: Education ; B: Life ; B: Labour ;
C
Greek proverb - " Grey hair is a sign of ____ not wisdom. "
A: Death ; B: Age ; C: Experience ;
B
Oliver Holmes said " ________ is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has commonsense on the ground floor. "
A: Science ; B: The Bed ; C: Literature ;
A
Aaron Latham said " Some things can only be said in _____ - but that doesn't mean they aren't true. "
A: Newspapers ; B: Fiction ; C: Novels ;
B
Robert Sarnoff said " ________ : the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. "
A: Salary ; B: Purchase ; C: Finance ;
C
Anon - " No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood"
Is it A: Graffiti ; B: A proverb ; C: Made up ;
C
R M Huber said " The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the ______. "
A: Taxmen ; B: King ; B: Poor ;
B
Charles Luckmen said " Success: that old ABC - ability breaks and ________. "
A: Conscience ; B: Culmination ; C: Courage ;
C
Minette Marrin said " It cannot have escaped notice that many untidy people are very _______. "
A: Clever ; B: Rich ; C: Creative ;
C
Henry Miller said " Life is for most of us one long _______. "
A: Drag ; B: Cancellation ; C: Postponement ;
C
Henry Miller said " The word which gives the key to the national vice is ____. "
A: Money ; B: Waste ; C: Spam ;
B
Bob Hope said " I don't feel anything until noon - then it's time for my ____. "
A: Nap ; B: Pills ; C: Food ;
A
Wilfred Sheed said " ________ is the fuel that keeps the new people moving faster than the speed of worry. "
A: Accountancy ; B: Money ; C: Employment ;
B
Yogi Berra once said " No wonder no-one comes here - it's too _______! "
A: Crowded ; B: Dirty ; C: Empty ;
A
Sam Goldwyn said " It's more than magnificent - it's _______. "
A: Momentous ; B: Magniminious ; C: Mediocre ;
C
Colley Cibber said " __________ is the only power that combats love. "
A: Wealth ; B: Hatred ; C: Ambition ;
C
Ogden Nash said 'You are much happier when you are ____ than when you ain't.'
A: Rich ; B: Prime Minister ; C: Happy
C
Charlie Chaplin said 'In the end everything is a ____.'
A: Flop ; B: Gag ; C: Yellow Submarine
B
Noel Coward said 'Work is much more fun than ____!'
A: John Major ; B: Singing ; C: Fun
C
Mae West: 'It's hard to be funny when you have to be ____.'
A: Clean ; B: Prime Minister ; C: Serious
A
John Gunther said 'Happiness depends on a ____ _____.'
A: Full Stomach ; B: Bank Account ; C: Leisurely Breakfast
C
The Dalai Lama said 'If you want others to be happy pratice ____.'
A: Medicine ; B: Buddhism ; C: Compassion
C
Groucho Marx said 'The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his ____ open!'
A: Trousers ; B: Cheque-book ; C: Door
B
Leon Tolstoy once said " _________ is the desire for desires. "
A: Wealth ; B: Boredom ; C: Literature ;
B
J P Mcevoy said " A _______ is the shortest distance between two points of view"
A: Joke ; B: Kiss ; C: Row ;
A
B C Forbes once said " Life is a _____ yes - but at least you play your own cards. "
A: Game ; B: Bridge ; C: Gamble ;
C
James Randi - Pyschic investigator - once said " The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a _______ ______ for 15 seconds. "
A: Microwave Oven ; B: Traffic Jam ; C: Time Warp ;
A
Craig Brown : " _________ could be described as turning one's enemies into money  ."
A: Journalism ; B: Gambling ; C: Head-hunting ;
A
Milton Berle said " A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses ____."
A: Hours ; B: Money ; C: Time ;
A
Sidney Hillman said " _______ is the science of who gets what - when - and why."
A: Journalism ; B: Economics ; C: Politics ;
C
Moliere once said " ______ : of all the noises known to man - the most expensive. "
A: Opera ; B: Work ; C: Flatulence ;
A
Ralph Waldo Emerson said " ______ is the first wealth. "
A: Stealth ; B: Money ; C: Health ;
C
Winston Churchill once said " It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of ________. "
A: Foolishness ; B: Knowledge ; C: Quotations ;
C
Robert Owen said to his business partner " All the world is a little ____ save thee and me - and even thou art a little _____. "
A: Mad ; B: Queer ; C: Strange ;
B
Woody Allen said " If I believed in reincarnation I'd come back as a _____. "
A: Tree ; B: Sponge ; C: Towel ;
B
George Bernard Shaw said " _____ : the most perfect expression of scorn. "
A: Sarcasm