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May 29, 2015 · 11:19 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #427

Published May 29-31, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version) 

1. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

A. Rihanna

B. Friedrich Nietzsche

C. Isaac Newton

2. “if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.”

A. Jeb Bush

B. Aristotle

C. Johnny Depp

3. “The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.”

A. Larry King

B. B. B. King

C. Gayle King

4. “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

A. Frank Capra

B. Julius Caesar

C. Halle Berry

5. “Taking joy in life is a woman’s best cosmetic.”

A. Carly Fiorina

B. Friedrich Engels

C. Rosalind Russell

6. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

A. Mark Twain

B. Mark Zuckerberg

C. Mark Wahlberg

7. “Abandon hope all ye who enter here.”

A. Mitch McConnell

B. Dante Alighieri

C. Tom Bodett

8. “We should consider any attempt on their (European nations) part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.”

A. James Monroe

B. Lindsey Graham

C. Marco Polo

9. “The moon, like a flower/ In heaven’s high bower,/ With silent delight/ Sits and smiles on the night.”

A. Al Jolson

B. William Blake

C. John Steinbeck

10. “It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that’s how I kept track of what was going on.”

A. Mary Todd Lincoln

B. J. Edgar Hoover

C. Barbara Bush

Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-B , 4-A , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 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:

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

― Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, was an American writer, publisher and philosopher.

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #426

Published May 22-24, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version) 

1. “Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”

A. Vincent van Gogh

B. Alger Hiss

C. Whoopi Goldberg

2. “Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.”

A. Jed Clampett

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

3. “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

A. Fidel Castro

B. Lorne Michaels

C. Oscar Wilde

4. “There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”

A. George Stephanopoulos

B. John Boehner

C. Alexis de Tocqueville

5. “The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.”

A. Eddie Murphy

B. Eddie Rickenbacker

C. Eddie Haskell

6. “Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. “

A. G. K. Chesterton

B. J. K. Rowling

C. Leo Tolstoy

7. “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.”

A. Kenny Rogers

B. Christopher Columbus

C. Confucius

8. “You know, you get that tattoo of barbed wire when you’re 18, but by the time you’re 80, it’s a picket fence.”

A. Madonna

B. Robin Williams

C. Tom Sawyer

9. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

A. Sophia Loren

B. Lawrence Welk

C. Lucille Ball

10. “A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

A. Perry Mason

B. Robert Frost

C. O. J. Simpson

Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-C , 4-C , 5-B , 6-A , 7-C , 8-B , 9-A , 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:

“Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.”

–Elsa Schiaparelli, 1890-1973, was an Italian-French designer.

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May 18, 2015 · 9:28 am

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #425

Published May 15-17, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version) 

1. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

A. A.A. Milne

B. Walt Disney

C. George Orwell

2. “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.”

A. Benjamin Disraeli

B. Jack Nicklaus

C. Whoopi Goldberg

3. “The success of a ghost story may be judged by its

thermometrical quality; if it sends a cold shiver

down one’s spine, it has done its job and done

it well.”

A. Edith Wharton

B. Beatrix Potter

C. Shirley Temple

4. “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

A. Sigmund Freud

B. Philip K. Dick

C. Dwight Eisenhower

5. “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”

A. George Noory

B. James Madison

C. Albert Einstein

6. “A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.”

A. Roman Polanski

B. Bernie Sanders

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

A. John Kenneth Galbraith

B. Suze Orman

C. Nancy Reagan

8. “I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

A. Bob Woodward

B. Harry S. Truman

C. Stephen Hawking

9. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations… The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.”

A. Winston Churchill

B. Roseanne Barr

C. Orville Wright

10. “Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.”

A. Mike Huckabee

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Voltaire

Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6-C , 7-A , 8-B , 9-A , 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:

“The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: ‘I do not know.'”

–Andre Maurois, 1885-1967, was a French biographer, novelist and essayist.

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #424

Published May 8-10, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version) 

SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY EDITION

1. “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

A. Oprah Winfrey

B. Louis Pasteur

C. Kim Kardashian

2. “Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

A. Noah Webster

B. Arnold Schwarzenegger

C. Ambrose Bierce

3. “It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”

A. Bob Barker

B. Phyllis Diller

C. Pope Benedict XVI

4. “Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.”

A. Satchel Paige

B. Aristotle

C. Joseph Stalin

5. “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”

A. Oscar Mayer

B. Oscar Pistorius

C. Oscar Wilde

6. “There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness… The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.”

A. Andrew Jackson

B. Ralph Nader

C. Mao Tse-Tung

7. “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”

A. Rocky Marciano

B. Charles Darwin

C. Milton Berle

8. “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

A. Al Capone

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. J. D. Salinger

9. “A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

A. Robert Frost

B. Robert Reich

C. Robert De Niro

10. “Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.”

A. Thomas Jefferson

B. Taylor Swift

C. James Joyce

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-C , 8-B , 9-A , 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:

“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”

― Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958, was an American educational reformer, social activist, and author.

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