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Quote Quiz

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Have you ever noticed how some quotes are known in the original language and others seem like you have never heard them in any language but English? How some quotes are so in-grained in our culture that you have no trouble identifying who said it and others sound vaguely familiar but you have no clue who said it? Today was one of those days where I drifted into several quotes, some by a complex chain of vaguely connected thoughts, others directly in my reading material.

In honor of the quotes drifting through my mind today, it is time for a little quote quiz. Following are ten quotes (translated to English as needed). Then comes a list of authors in no particular order. Your job is to connect the quote to the author.

The quotes:

A) I came, I saw, I conquered.

B) Love me, love my dog.

C) Love conquers all.

D) Age is a matter of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

E) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

F) After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

G) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

H) It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

I) A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

J) A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

The Authors:

1) Boethius

2) Oscar Wilde

3) Xenophanes

4) John F. Kennedy

5) Bette Midler

6) Agatha Christie

7) Mark Twain

8) Virgil

9) St. Bernard

10) Julius Caesar

So your challenge is to match the quote to the author. As a hint, A-10 is one answer. I.e. it was Julius Caesar who in 47 B.C. said vini, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered). Good luck!

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Today my mind was wondering and came to rest on quotes relating to mankind (or womankind or homo sapiens if you prefer). I thought of several quotes that seemed apropos, so here are a few remembered quotes on the topic:

  1. Man: A creature made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
  2. The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
  3. Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?
  4. I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
  5. I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.
  6. I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

And here is a list of the authors:

  1. Friedrich W. Nietzsche
  2. Oscar Wilde
  3. Charles Schultz
  4. Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. Friedrich Nietzsche
  6. Mark Twain

Your challenge is to correctly associate the author with the quote without using Google or other search engine.

While you cogitate and work on the problem, I’ll show you a picture of the icecles that have formed on the eaves from the freeze thaw cycle of the snow:

Cogitated long enough? Got your answers in hand?

Well, while we wait, let me ask another question: which of the quotes most resonates with you view of the world?

The correct associations between quotes and authors are given in the first comment. No peaking!

Oh, my world view resonates with either of

Man: A creature made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

 -or-

I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand.