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May 8, 2016 · 10:07 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #474

Published May 8, 2016 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Click HERE to play the Interactive version)

 

1. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

 

A. C. S. Lewis

B. H. G. Wells

C. J. D. Salinger

 

2. “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”

 

A. Tommy Lee Jones

B. John Quincy Adams

C. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

 

3. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

 

A. Friedrich Nietzsche

B. Stan Laurel

C. James Cameron

 

4. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

 

A. Bruce Springsteen

B. Bruce Lee

C. Bruce Willis

 

5. “Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.”

 

A. Orrin Hatch

B. Pope John Paul II

C. Linda Ronstadt

 

6. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

 

A. Ray Romano

B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

C. Edgar Allan Poe

 

7. “We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

 

A. John Kasich

B. John Lennon

C. John Travolta

 

8. “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

 

A. Walt Disney

B. Dr. Seuss

C. Sigmund Freud

 

9. “If your parents never had children, chances are… neither will you.”

 

A. Socrates

B. Evander Holyfield

C. Dick Cavett

 

10. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”

 

A. Aaron Burr

B. Victor Hugo

C. Sean Penn

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 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:

“A mother is a person who, seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

–Tenneva Jordan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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June 5, 2015 · 11:58 pm

What’s Your Quotient Quotient? #428

Published June 5-7, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


1. “Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your

judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”

A. Pat Benatar

B. Douglas MacArthur

C. Kahlil Gibran

2. “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.”

A. Calvin and Hobbes

B. Peanuts

C. Romeo and Juliet

3. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Spiro Agnew

C. Patrick Henry

4. “Ah, my poor countrymen! Yankees and Dollars have such inextricable association that the words ought to rhyme.”

A. Ralph Nader

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Ralph Kramden

5. “Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors….Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.”

A. Stephen Hawking

B. Britney Spears

C. Albert Einstein

6. “There was a little girl,/  Who had a little curl,/  Right in the middle of her forehead./  When she was good,/  She was very good indeed,/  But when she was bad she was horrid.”

A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B. John Oliver

C. Daddy Warbucks

7. “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

A. Sir Isaac Newton

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Donald Trump

8. “Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree’s log… When the log fire pop-sparks, it is letting go a very sunny day long ago, and doing so in a hurry.”

A. R. Buckminster Fuller

B. Galileo

C. Morley Safer

9. “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

A. Walt Disney

B. Anais Nin

C. Harry S. Truman

10. “The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness.”

A. Victor Hugo

B. Serena Williams

C. Mahatma Gandhi

Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-A , 9-B , 10-A

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 rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.”

–François de La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, was a French author of maxims and memoirs.

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April 25, 2015 · 3:03 pm

What’s Your Quotation Quotient? #422

Published April 24, 2015 at Montereyherald.com/lifestyle (Interactive version)


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

 

A. Thomas A. Edison

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. Thomas Friedman

 

2. “Caution is the eldest child of wisdom”

 

A. Groucho Marx

B. Clarence Thomas

C. Victor Hugo

 

3. “You can fool too many people too much of the time.”

 

A. James Thurber

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. Brian Williams

 

4. “In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

 

A. John Travolta

B. John Muir

C. John Adams

 

5. “It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.”

 

A. William Shakespeare

B. Al Roker

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

6. “I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

 

A. Chris Christie

B. William Penn

C. Ella Fitzgerald

 

7. “If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”

 

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Stevie Wonder

C. Aaron Copland

 

8. “And freedom, oh freedom, well, that’s just some people talkin’/  

Your prison is walking through this world all alone.”

 

A. The Yardbirds

B. The Byrds

C. The Eagles

 

9. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

 

A. Elton John

B. Robert Frost

C. Alexander Haig

 

10.  “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

 

A. Don Rickles

B. Sigmund Freud

C. John Steinbeck

 

 

 

Answers: 1-A, 2-C , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6-B , 7-A , 8-C , 9-B , 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:

 “If you haven’t seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven’t seen her smile her prettiest.”

 ―Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, was an American cartoonist, humorist and journalist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 11, 2015 · 5:51 pm

What’s Your QQ*? #407

*QUOTATION QUOTIENT

(Published January 11, 2015 in the Monterey Herald.)

 

1. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

 

A. Victor Hugo

B. Mike Tyson

C. Michael Jackson

 

2. “Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.”

 

A. Adam Carolla

B. Adam Smith

C. Eve Arden

 

3. “Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”

 

A. Walter Lippmann

B. George W. Bush

C. Bobby Fischer

 

4. “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”

 

A. W. C. Fields

B. Rutherford B. Hayes

C. Richard M. Nixon

 

5. “If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.”

 

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

6. “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

 

A. Francisco  Franco

B. Charles Dickens

C. Benjamin Franklin

 

7. “The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”

 

A. Erich Fromm

B. Rod Serling

C. Ellen DeGeneres

 

8. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

 

A. Louis Armstrong

B. Winston Churchill

C. Laurence Olivier

 

9. “No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.”

 

A. Bertrand Russell

B. Ed Sullivan

C. Larry King

 

10. “What terrifies religious extremists like the Taliban are not American tanks or bombs or bullets, it’s a girl with a book.”

 

A. Karl Marx

B. Malala Yousafzai

C. Chuck Schumer

 

 

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

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie ten Boom

 (Ten Boom, 1892-1983, a Dutch Christian, was imprisoned during WWII for helping hundreds of Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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