*QUOTATION QUOTIENT
(Published May 11, 2014 in the Monterey Herald.)
1. “There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
A. Gerald Ford
B. Coco Chanel
C. Amelia Earhart
2. “Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”
A. Voltaire
B. Gustav Mahler
C. Dr. Mehmet Oz
3. “The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
A. William Shakespeare
B. Carl Jung
C. Cinderella
4. “I am the people–the mob–the crowd–the mass./ Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?”
A. Mormon Tabernacle Choir
B. Jane Austen
C. Carl Sandburg
5. “Fake food – I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut – is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.”
A. Julia Child
B. Paula Deen
C. Jimmy Dean
6. “If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.”
A. Robert McNamara
B. Spock
C. Jacques Cousteau
7. “The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.”
A. Eugene Debs
B. Clyde Barrow
C. Charles Koch
8. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
A. Yo-Yo Ma
B. Helen Keller
C. Joseph McCarthy
9. “Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor is provided to console him from what he is.”
A. Jerry Seinfeld
B. George Washington
C. Oscar Wilde
10. “There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.”
A. Henry Kissinger
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Henry Ford
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-B , 4-C , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-C , 10-A
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:
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you;/ Weep, and you weep alone.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Wilcox, 1850-1919, was an American author and poet.)
Quotation Quotient™ 