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. Miguel Cabrera
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. “Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.”
A. Groucho Marx
B. Mother Teresa
C. Mark Cuban
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. "'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult."
A. Lindsay Lohan
B. William Thackeray
C. Jimmy Swaggart
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-A , 6-A , 7-B , 8-B , 9-B , 10-C
Scoring:
10 – QQQQ = Quote-Master
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.)
Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, CA, and writes a weekly quotation quiz for the Monterey County Herald. He welcomes comments at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Enjoy more quizzes at quotationquotient.com.