*Quotation Quotient
(Published April 28, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “A word to the wise ain’t necessary. It’s the stupid ones who need the advice.”
A. David Crosby
B. Bing Crosby
C. Bill Cosby
2. “It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers’ Game.”
A. Vin Scully
B. Barry Zito
C. Napoleon Bonaparte
3. “If it’s a good script I’ll do it. And if it’s a bad script, and they pay me enough, I’ll do it.”
A. Jodie Foster
B. Laurence Olivier
C. George Burns
4. “What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.”
A. William Shakespeare
B. Isadora Duncan
C. John Belushi
5. “After a certain degree of prettiness, one pretty girl is as pretty as another.”
A. Richard Simmons
B. Nicole Kidman
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “I am an enemy to long explanations; they deceive either the maker or the hearer, and generally both.”
A. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
B. Benjamin Harrison
C. Al Gore
7. “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
A. Lewis Carroll
B. Jean-Paul Sartre
C. Wayne LaPierre
8. “A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.”
A. David Brooks
B. Edmund Burke
C. Harpo Marx
9. “If you really want to know your mind, the body will always give you a truthful reflection, so look at the emotion, or rather feel it in your body. If there is an apparent conflict between them, the thought will be the lie, the emotion will be the truth.”
A. Eckhart Tolle
B. Leo Durocher
C. Joan Rivers
10. “Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.”
A. “Bebe” Rebozo
B. Amelia Earhart
C. Will Rogers
Answers: 1-C, 2-A , 3-C , 4-B , 5-C , 6-A , 7-B , 8-B , 9-A , 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:
“Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.” – Lewis Thomas
(Thomas, 1913-1993, was an American physician, educator and author.)
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