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Advice & More September 2013

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"There are two kinds of fools. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.' " - John Brunner

1. "The history of man is a series of conspiracies to win from nature some advantage without paying for it."

A. John D. Rockefeller

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Carrie Underwood

 

2. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

A. Margaret Mitchell

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. King Richard III

 

3. "Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

A. Golda Meir

B. Brad Pitt

C. Charles Lindbergh

 

4. "Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo./ Shovel them under and let me work—/ I am the grass; I cover all."

A. Napoleon Bonaparte

B. Carl Sandburg

C. Condoleezza Rice

 

5. "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,/ 'Tis woman's whole existence."

A. Lord Voldemort

B. Marjorie Lord

C. Lord Byron

 

6. "We need to devise a system within which peace will be more rewarding than war."

A. Lou Gehrig

B. Margaret Mead

C. Lockheed Martin

 

7. "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."

A. Voltaire

B. Alex Trebek

C. Ulysses S. Grant

 

8. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

A. Galileo Galilei

B. Pope Francis

C. Jimmy Fallon

 

9. “Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”

A. Robert Blake

B. William Blake

C. Blake Edwards

 

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

A. Plato

B. Paul Simon

C. Woody Allen

 


Answers: 1-B, 2-A , 3-A , 4-B , 5-C , 6- B, 7-A , 8- A, 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 of the Day:

"There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says, 'This is new, and therefore better.' " - John Brunner (Brunner, 1934-1995, was a British science fiction author.)

Arlen  Grossman lives in Monterey, California. Enjoy more quizzes at  quotationquotient.com. Comments and suggestions are welcomed at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

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