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August 9, 2015 · 12:48 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #436

Published August 9, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

 

A. Milton Friedman

B. Friedrich Nietzsche

C. Sitting Bull

 

2. “Everybody’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another beer.”

 

A. Deepak Chopra

B. Joseph Coors

C. W.C. Fields

 

3. “It is not length of Life, but depth of life.”

 

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. James Cameron

C. Raúl Castro

 

4. “I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.”

 

A. John Dillinger

B. Jimmy Carter

C. Clint Eastwood

 

5. “Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”

 

A. Al Jolson

B. Aristotle

C. Harry Potter

 

6. “This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn’t say how far to separate them.”

A. Gracie Allen

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Amy Schumer

 

7. “To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.”

 

A. John Wayne

B. John Oliver

C. John Updike

 

8. “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

 

A. Peter Pan

B. Pocahontas

C. Aladdin

 

9. “Every day people are straying away from the church and back to God.”

 

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Joel Osteen

C. Lenny Bruce

 

10. “The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

 

A. Tom Brady

B. Tom Clancy

C. Tom Cruise

 

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

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

—Charlotte Whitton, 1896-1975, was the first female mayor of a major city in Canada (Ottowa).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August 2, 2015 · 2:11 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #435

Published August 2, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


1. “Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”

A. George Custer

B. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

C. Washington Irving

2. “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

A. Sheldon Cooper

B. Albert Einstein

C. Charlie Brown

3. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.”

A. Kim Jong-un

B. The Association

C. Bette Midler

4. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.”

A. Mother Teresa

B. Mamma Cass

C. Grandma Moses

5. “When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.”

A. Herbert Hoover

B. Rick Perry

C. Napoleon Bonaparte

6. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

A. Kenny G

B. Kahlil Gibran

C. James Naismith

7. “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted island, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”

A. Helen Mirren

B. Helen of Troy

C. Helen Keller

8. “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”

A. Coco Chanel

B. Alexander Haig

C. Boutros Butrous-Ghali

9. “It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

A. John Oliver

B. Rose Kennedy

C. Pablo Picasso

10. “You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”

A. Leon Trotsky

B. Lawrence Welk

C. Henry David Thoreau

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

“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”

— Montesquieu, 1689-1755, was a French lawyer and political philosopher during the Age of Enlightenment.

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July 26, 2015 · 7:41 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient #434

 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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July 18, 2015 · 1:08 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #433

Published July 19, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.”

A. Thomas A. Edison

B. Jon Bon Jovi

C. Sir Francis Drake

2. “I hate doing laundry. I don’t separate the colors from the whites. I put them together and let them learn from their cultural differences.”

A. Rosalynn Carter

B. Bing Crosby

C. Rita Rudner

3. “Mrs. Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”

A. Virginia Woolf

B. Michael J. Fox

C. Larry Bird

4. “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

A. Jack Nicholson

B. Jack Kerouac

C. Jack Nicklaus

5. “If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

A. Steven Spielberg

B. Carl Jung

C. Ernest Borgnine

6. “Cowardice asks the question–is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question–is it politic? Vanity asks the question–is it popular? Conscience asks the question–is it right?”

A. Jonas Salk

B. Martin Luther King, Jr.

C. George Costanza

7. “I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.”

A. W.C. Fields

B. W. B. Yeats

C. J. K. Rowling

8. “There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

A. John Denver

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Plato

9. “I don’t know a lot about politics, but I can recognize a good party man when I see one.”

A. Mae West

B. Oprah Winfrey

C. Kim Kardashian

10. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

A. Herman Melville

B. Ben Franklin

C. Ronn Owens

 

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

“Punctuality is something that if you have it, there’s often no one around to share it with you.“

–Hylda Baker, 1905-1986, was a British comedienne and actress.

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