1. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
A. Paul Peterson
B. Pablo Picasso
C. Peter Parker
2. “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
A. Harry S. Truman
B. Boris Yeltsin
C. Bill Gates
3. “A woman is like a tea bag – you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”
A. Sammy Davis, Jr.
B. Nancy Reagan
C. Eleanor Roosevelt
4. "What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
A. Frank Lloyd Wright
B. George Takei
C. Henry David Thoreau
5. "It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on they make society pay dearly."
A. Jean-Paul Sartre
B. Fidel Castro
C. Mary Tyler Moore
6. "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
A. Samuel Adams
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Samuel Clemens
7. "And in the end, through the long ages of our quest for light, it will be found that truth is still mightier than the sword."
A. Lewis Carroll
B. Gen. Douglas MacArthur
C. Frank Zappa
8. "I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
A. Harry Potter
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Rodney Dangerfield
9. "Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."
A. Lena Horne
B. Carroll O'Connor
C. Benjamin Franklin
10. "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
A. John Wooden
B. E. E. Cummings
C. Richard Nixon
Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-C , 4-C , 5-A , 6-B , 7-B , 8-B , 9-A , 10-B
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: “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool,
than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
- Maurice Switzer. (Switzer's quote is from his 1906 book, "Mrs. Goose, Her Book.")
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