*Quotation Quotient
(Published August 4, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
A. Billy Barty
B. Neil Diamond
C. Maya Angelou
2. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
A. Lindsay Lohan
B. Nelson Mandela
C. Bradley Manning
3. “I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.”
A. Jackie Mason
B. William Rehnquist
C. Pat Summerall
4. “Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
A. Carl Yastrzemski
B. Carl Cherry
C. Carl Jung
5. “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
A. Andrew Sullivan
B. Winston Churchill
C. Joseph Stalin
6. “I am not young enough to know everything.”
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Humphrey Bogart
C. Lisa Kudrow
7. “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
A. Ricky Ricardo
B. Leonardo da Vinci
C. Ingrid Bergman
8. “My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an experton pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.”
A. Meryl Streep
B. Bill O’Reilly
C. Peyton Manning
9. “God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.”
A. Anthony Weiner
B. Robin Williams
C. Jonas Salk
10. “If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.”
A. Abraham Maslow
B. Sirhan Sirhan
C. Jimmy Buffett
Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-C , 5-B , 6-A , 7-C , 8-A , 9-B , 10-C
Scoring: 10–QQQQ = Quote-Master
(number correct) 8-9–QQQ = Scholar
6-7–QQ = Literate
4-5–Q = Semi-Literate
0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce
BONUS QUOTE:
“We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.” – Jeannette Rankin
(Rankin, 1880-1973, from Montana, was the first woman in the U.S. Congress, and a lifelong pacifist. She died in Carmel.)
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