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May 1, 2016 · 4:28 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #473

Published May 1, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)

1. “People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”

A. Russell Baker

B. Stephen Hawking

C. George Custer

2. “Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”

A. Ron Howard

B. Calvin Coolidge

C. George Bernard Shaw

3. “Parents used to have children in order to assist on the farm or ranch; today they have them for tech support.”

A. Confucius

B. Arlen Grossman

C. Paul Ryan

4. “What is hell?/ Hell is oneself,/ Hell is alone, the other figures in it/ Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from/ And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.”

A. Julie Andrews

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Will Rogers

5. “Heeeere’s Johnny!”

A. Ed McMahon

B. Jack Nicholson

C. John F. Kennedy

6. “Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

A. Henry Aaron

B. Henry Kissinger

C. Henry David Thoreau

7. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

A. Carly Fiorina

B. William Shakespeare

C. Barry Manilow

8. “You cannot be serious!”

A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Pope Francis

C. John McEnroe

9. “The issue isn’t just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.”

A. Jim Hightower

B. Harriet Tubman

C. Robert Frost

10. “Most persons have died before they expire, — died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”

A. Tom Selleck

B. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

C. Johann Sebastian Bach

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

“We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.”

–Ramsay MacDonald, 1866-1937, was Britain’s first Labour Party Prime Minister.

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April 3, 2016 · 3:39 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #469

Published April 3, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)

1. “To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

A. Billy Barty

B. Barbara Boxer

C. Bernard Baruch

2. “Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”

A. Ann Morrow Lindbergh

B. Nikita Khrushchev

C. Charlie Chaplin

3. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

A. Colin Kaepernick

B. Helen Keller

C. Joseph McCarthy

4. “Canada is a country without a cuisine. When’s the last time you went out for Canadian?”

A. Mickey Mantle

B. Marilyn Monroe

C. Mike Myers

5. “April is the cruelest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain.”

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Clint Eastwood

C. Edgar Allan Poe

6. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”

A. Charles Koch

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Stephen Curry

7. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

A. Roald Dahl

B. John McCain

C. James Dean

8. “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”

A. Ho Chi Minh

B. Clarence Thomas

C. Kurt Vonnegut

9. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

A. Pelé

B. Voltaire

C. Prince

10. “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

A. Ralph Nader

B. Yogi Berra

C. Carl Jung

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

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”

–Miles Kington, 1941-2008, was a British writer, humorist, and musician.

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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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