*Quotation Quotient
(Published September 22, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.”
A. Horace Greeley
B. Arnold Schwarzenegger
C. Babe Ruth
2. “A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she’s a tramp.”
A. John Stuart Mill
B. Lady Bird Johnson
C. Joan Rivers
3. “Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
A. Barack Obama
B. Oscar Wilde
C. k. d. lang
4. “If, of all words of tongue and pen,/ The saddest are, ‘It might have been,’/ More sad are these we daily see:/ ‘It is, but hadn’t ought to be’.”
A. Bret Harte
B. Jon Stewart
C. Louisa May Alcott
5. “Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.”
A. King Arthur
B. Voltaire
C. Michael Jackson
6. “When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.”
A. Thomas Paine
B. William Shakespeare
C. Tennessee Williams
7. “What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. ”
A. Dennis Mitchell
B. Margaret Mitchell
C. Joni Mitchell
8. “The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check enclosed.'”
A. Dorothy Parker
B. Carrie Underwood
C. Abraham Lincoln
9. “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
A. Ichabod Crane
B. Mick Jagger
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
10. “More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
A. Socrates
B. Marvin Hamlisch
C. Woody Allen
Answers: 1-A, 2C- , 3-B , 4-A , 5-B , 6-C , 7-B , 8-A , 9-C , 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:
“Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.”
— Erastus Flavel Beadle
(Beadle, 1821-1894, was a pioneer in publishing pulp fiction.)
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