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Advice & More November 2014

Quotation Quotient

What’s Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you', that would suffice.” -- Meister Eckhart             

1. "Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power." 

A. Al Capone

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Charlton Heston

 

2. "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive."

A. Mahatma Gandhi

B. Norman Rockwell

C. William F. Buckley, Jr.

 

3. "The tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives."

A. John Travolta

B. Henry Ford

C. Albert Schweitzer

 

4. "The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."

A. Anthony Weiner

B. William Safire

C. Diana Ross

 

5. "Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,/ Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;/ Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,/ Lulled by the moonlight have all passed away."

A. Stephen Foster

B. Stephen Colbert

C. Stephen King

 

6. "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

A. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

B. Curious George

C. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

7. "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

A. Bertrand Russell

B. Pope Francis

C. Ty Cobb

 

8. "Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."

A. Phyllis Diller

B. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

C. Martha Stewart

 

9. "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him." 

A. Kate Middleton

B. Adlai Stevenson

C. H.L. Mencken

 

10. “Ah! On Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, and the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”

A. John Phillip Sousa

B. John Greenleaf Whittier

C. John Wesley Harding


Answers: 1-B, 2-C , 3-C , 4-B , 5-A , 6-C , 7-A , 8-A , 9-C , 10-B

Scoring:              

10 –  QQQQ = Quote-Master   

8-9 – QQQ = Scholar                      

6-7 – QQ = Literate

4-5 – Q = Semi-Literate

O-3 – No Q = Quote-Dunce

 

Bonus Quote: “If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you', that would suffice.”
– Meister Eckhart. (Eckhart, c. 1260-c.1328, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic.)

 

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, Calif., 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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