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Advice & More April 2015

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again." - André Gide

1. “The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is… forgetfulness.”

A. Hillary Clinton

B. Alice Walker

C. Lorne Greene

 

2. “If only we could have two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, which seem as if they have to be made; and the second in which to profit by them.”

A. D. H. Lawrence

B. Lawrence Welk

C. Jennifer Lawrence

 

3. "If, of all words of tongue and pen,/ The saddest are, 'It might have been,'/ More sad are these we daily see:/ 'It is, but hadn't ought to be'."

A. Bret Harte

B. Jon Stewart

C. Louisa May Alcott

 

4. “The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.”

A. Albert Einstein

B. Taylor Swift

C. Doris Day

 

5. "Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended."

A. King Arthur

B. Voltaire

C. Michael Jackson

 

6. "We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."

A. Alex Comfort

B. Anderson Cooper

C. Andrew Carnegie

 

7. "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore."

A. "The Silence of the Lambs"

B. "Network"

C. "The Shining"

 

8. “I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.”

A. Rose Kennedy

B. Janice Joplin

C. Arnold Palmer

 

9. "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

A. Socrates

B. Marvin Hamlisch

C. Woody Allen

 

10. "For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world."

A. Will Rogers

B. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

C. Kelly Clarkson


 

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

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening,
everything must be said again."
- André Gide (Gide, 1869-1951, a French author, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.)

 

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, CA, and welcomes comments at  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .. Enjoy more quizzes at quotationquotient.com.

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