Published July 26, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)
1. “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm, but the harm does not interest them, or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
A. T. S. Eliot
B. Donald Trump
C. Groucho Marx
2. “Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.”
A. Margaret Thatcher
B. Margaret Mitchell
C. Margaret Mead
3. “Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”
A. Jim Cramer
B. Will Rogers
C. Herman Hesse
4. “Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.”
A. Calvin Klein
B. John Adams
C. Mark Twain
5. “There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.”
A. Bill Bryson
B. Aristophanes
C. Ed McMahon
6. “I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.”
A. Keith Richards
B. Benjamin Harrison
C. Lon Chaney
7. “Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”
A. Bill Watterson
B. Charles M. Schulz
C. Chester Gould
8. “I’ve told Billy (Bob Thornton) if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.”
A. Angelina Jolie
B. Caitlyn Jenner
C. Ellen DeGeneres
9. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
A. Henry Kissinger
B. Yoda
C. Mahatma Gandhi
10. “The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.”
A. Fidel Castro
B. Edmund Burke
C. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-B , 4-B , 5-A , 6-B , 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:
“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.”
–Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773, was a British statesman and diplomat.
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