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Advice & More December 2015

Quotation Quotient

Christmas/Holiday Edition

By Arlen Grossman

“Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.”

1. "Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused –  in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened –  by the recurrence of Christmas."

A. Charles Manson

B. Charles Schwab

C. Charles Dickens

 

2. “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly."

A. Martha Stewart

B. Andy Rooney

C. Albert Einstein

 

3. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day/ Their old, familiar carols play,/ And wild and sweet/ The words repeat/ Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B. Bing Crosby

C. J. K. Rowling

 

4. "Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."

A. Phyllis Diller

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Don Draper

 

5. "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."

A. Grover Cleveland Alexander

B. Macaulay Culkin

C. Shirley Temple

 

6. "Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven."

A. Pat Boone

B. W. C. Fields

C. Douglas MacArthur

 

7. "'Maybe Christmas,' he thought, 'doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.'”

A. Dr. Phil

B. Dr. Oz

C. Dr. Seuss

 

8. “Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you’re giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.”     

A. Caroline Kennedy

B. Donald Trump

C. Abraham Lincoln

 

9. "Put on your yarmulke/ Here comes Chanukah/ So much funukah,/ To celebrate Chanukah/ Chanukah is the festival of lights/ Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights."

A. Bill O'Reilly

B. Adam Sandler

C. Jack Benny

 

10. "The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband."

A. Nancy Reagan

B. Queen Elizabeth II

C. Joan Rivers


 

Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-A , 5-C , 6-B , 7-C , 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:  “Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words.”
~ Harlan Miller, 1897-1968, was a newspaper columnist at the Des Moines Register.

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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