*Quotation Quotient
(Published March 24, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”
A. Henry van Dyke
B. Dick Van Dyke
C. Jerry Van Dyke
2. “It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
A. Ted Nugent
B. Albert Einstein
C. Sammy Davis Jr.
3. “Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
A. George Zimmerman
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. George Michael
4. “I was a child and she was a child,/ In this kingdom by the sea;/ But we loved with a love that was more than love-/ I and my Annabel Lee;/ With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/ Coveted her and me.”
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Luciano Pavarotti
C. Edgar Allan Poe
5. “To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.”
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Meryl Streep
C. Sigmund Freud
6. “The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”
A. Millard Fillmore
B. Tommy Rettig
C. James Thurber
7. “But a man can be a tramp, purposeless, and be happy… I verily believe, vast numbers of men would gladly drift away as wasters, if there were anywhere to drift to.”
A. Jennifer Lawrence
B. D.H. Lawrence
C. Lawrence of Arabia
8. “We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.”
A. Martin Luther King III
B. Dick Cheney
C. Osama bin Laden
9. “I don’t believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.”
A. C. Everett Koop
B. Hippocrates
C. Christiann Barnard
10. “No human thing is of serious importance.”
A. Bono
B. Garfield
C. Plato
Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-B , 4-C , 5-A , 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:
“The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.” – Cyril Connolly
(Connolly, 1903-1974, was an English literary critic and writer.)
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