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October 16, 2015 · 7:22 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #446

Published October 18, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

1. “We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

A. H. G. Wells

B. Leonardo da Vinci

C. R. D. Laing

2. “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save our environment.”

A. John Quincy Adams

B. Ansel Adams

C. Scott Adams

3. “[In] the traditional method, the child must say something that he has merely learned. There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.”

A. John Dewey

B. Liberace

C. Warren G. Harding

4. “I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ”

A. John Travolta

B. Garfield

C. Rita Rudner

5. “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,/ That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

A. Romeo

B. Lady Macbeth

C. Hamlet

6. “I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.”

A. Charles DeGaulle

B. Whitey Ford

C. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do matters very much.”

A. René Descartes

B. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

C. Ralph Nader

8. “Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.”

A. Carl Rogers

B. Fred Rogers

C. Roy Rogers

9. “Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves

that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”

A. Dr. Ben Carson

B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

C. Augusto Pinochet

10. “Why do airlines put an oxygen mask directly over your seat?  You

don’t need it there.  You know where they should put it?  Inside the

tiny little bathroom.  That’s where you need the oxygen.”

A. “Sully” Sullenberger

B. Orville Wright

C. Jay Leno

 

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

“No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.”

–Robert Henri, 1865-1929, was an American painter and influential art teacher.

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September 14, 2015 · 1:41 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #441

Published September 13, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


 

 

1. “Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.”

 

A. Cher

B. Cleopatra

C. Twiggy

 

2. “Dentopedology is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I’ve been practicing it for years.”

 

A. Yogi Berra

B. Rudyard Kipling

C. Prince Philip

 

3. “How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”

 

A. Marcus Aurelius

B. Ward Cleaver

C. Lisa Lampanelli

 

4. “It doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people doesn’t add up to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that. Now, now… Here’s looking at you kid.”

 

A. Jimmy Stewart

B. Humphrey Bogart

C. John Belushi

 

5. “Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can’t have too many friends because then you’re just not really friends.”

 

A. Thomas Edison

B. Bruno Hauptmann

C. Truman Capote

 

6. “History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.”

 

A. Henry Ford

B. Henry VIII

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

7. “The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.”

 

A. Bashar al-Assad

B. Bob Hope

C. Mike Huckabee

 

8. “The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”

 

A. Leonardo da Vinci

B. Albert Camus

C. Jessica Simpson

 

9. “We’ve begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet – so we bought a dog. Well, it’s cheaper, and you get more feet.”

 

A. Michelle Duggar

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Rita Rudner

 

10. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

 

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Nicolaus Copernicus

C. Lamont Cranston

 

 

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

“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

–Francois de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, was a French writer of moralistic maxims.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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February 15, 2015 · 1:04 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #412

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Interactive version published February 15, 2015 at Montereyherald.com.)

 

1. “I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.”

 

A. George Washington

B. Bruce Jenner

C. Brian Williams

 

2. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

 

A. C. S. Forester

B. Sam Smith

C. William Shakespeare

 

3. “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

 

A. John Stuart Mill

B. Pharrell Williams

C. Hugh Hefner

 

4. “Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.”

 

A. P. J. O’Rourke

B. Abner Doubleday

C. Doris Day

 

5. “If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.”

 

A. David Letterman

B. Warren Buffett

C. Plato

 

6. “You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don’t think there’s really any oxygen. I think they’re just to muffle the screams.”

 

A. Rita Rudner

B. “Sully” Sullenberger

C. Mark Twain

 

7. “The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.”

 

A. Rodney Dangerfield

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Davis Love III

 

8. “Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man: to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.”

 

A. Martin Luther King, Jr.

B. Joe Namath

C. Miguel de Cervantes

 

9. “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”

 

A. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

B. Lemony Snicket

C. Ulysses S. Grant

 

10. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

 

A. Ava DuVernay

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Thomas Jefferson

 

 

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

 

“When you realize that no one really knows what they are doing and that everyone is doing the best they can according to their own level of consciousness, life gets a lot easier.” – Bruno Cavaleiro

 (The identity of Cavaleiro is unclear.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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