*Quotation Quotient
(Published September 15, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is… forgetfulness.”
A. Hillary Clinton
B. Alice Walker
C. Lorne Greene
2. “If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one’s mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.”
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. Lawrence Welk
C. Jennifer Lawrence
3. “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.
B. Bashar al-Assad
C. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
4. “The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.”
A. Albert Einstein
B. Taylor Swift
C. Doris Day
5. “The increase in a corporation’s P.R. ad budget goes up in direct proportion to the degree of harm done to consumers and/or the environment.”
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Sam Walton
C. Arlen Grossman
6. “We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.”
A. Alex Comfort
B. Anderson Cooper
C. Andrew Carnegie
7. “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.”
A. “The Silence of the Lambs”
B. “Network”
C. “The Shining”
8. “I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.”
A. Rose Kennedy
B. Joseph Jackson
C. Bill Maher
9. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
A. William McKinley
B. Lewis Black
C. Mahatma Gandhi
10. “For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.”
A. Mark Twain
B. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
C. Kelly Clarkson
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-C , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 10-B
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:
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” – André Gide
(Gide, 1869-1951, a French author, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.)
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