1. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'”
A. John Greenleaf Whittier
B. Bill Buckner
C. George Washington Carver
2. "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
A. Hugh Jackman
B. Albert Camus
C. Henry Ford
3. "Poverty is the worst form of violence."
A. Kim Jong-un
B. Warren Buffett
C. Mahatma Gandhi
4. "I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
A. Jillian Michaels
B. Charles Schwab
C. Joseph Stalin
5. "If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
A. Johnny Carson
B. Priscilla Presley
C. Will Rogers
6. "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
A. Bertrand Russell
B. Charlie Chaplin
C. James Stewart
7. "I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. / Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? / I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world's food and clothes."
A. Carl Sagan
B. Carl Karcher
C. Carl Sandburg
8. "A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
A. Joe Biden
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Ring Lardner
9. "To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them."
A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. Richard Nixon
C. Frederick Chopin
10. "I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter."
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Laura Ingalls
C. Drew Carey
Answers: 1-A, 2-B , 3-C , 4-B , 5-A , 6-A , 7-C , 8-C , 9-A , 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:
“There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.” - William Barclay (Barclay, 1907-1978, was a Scottish theologian and author.)
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