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Advice & More February 2015

Quotation Quotient

What's Your QQ?

By Arlen Grossman

"When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you’re rich. If your name is on your desk, you’re middle class. If your name is on your shirt, you’re poor."

1. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

A. Alfred Hitchcock

B. Donald Trump

C. Upton Sinclair

 

2. “There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

A. Regis Philbin

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Harry Houdini

 

3. “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”

A. Clarence Darrow

B. Justin Timberlake

C. Lizzie Borden

 

4. “We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic, a fourth – Responsibility.”

A. Herbert Hoover

B. Marie Antoinette

C. J. Edgar Hoover

 

5. "No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation."

A. Dick Cheney

B. Attila the Hun

C. Woodrow Wilson

 

6. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”

A. Edgar Cayce

B. Oscar Wilde

C. John F. Kennedy

 

7. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

A. Leon Trotsky

B. William Shakespeare

C. Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

8. "Carpe diem."

A. Horace

B. Horace Greeley

C. Horace Mann

 

9. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

A. Ginger Baker

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Victor Hugo

 

10.  “Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”

A. David Letterman

B. Orson Welles

C. Mark Twain


 

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

"When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you’re rich. If your name is on your desk, you’re middle class. If your name is on your shirt, you’re poor." - Rich Hall. (Hall, b. 1954, is an American comedian and writer.)

Arlen Grossman lives in Monterey, California, 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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