Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by P. J. O’Rourke
10 07 2007single answer
- Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
- Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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2. Which of these quotes are a quote by Miguel de Cervantes
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- Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
- Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
Arthur Rubinstein
- You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
- I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it.
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3.Who said:Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- Barbara DeAngelis
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
- Benjamin Franklin
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- God’s Little Instruction Book
4.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Peter Ustinov
single answer
- Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn’t amount to much.
- The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.
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- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
5. Which of these quotes are a quote by Edmund Wilson
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- Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Confucius
- There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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- There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
6.Who said:How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
- John Keats
- Danish proverb
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- May Sarton
7.Who said:Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- H. Jackson Browne
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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- Susan Sontag
- C. Neil Strait
8.Who said:Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody’s heart.
- Joe Martin
- Anthony D’Angelo
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- Philip Guedalla
9.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Sallust
single answer
- The higher your station, the less your liberty.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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- Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
10. Which of these quotes are a quote by Barbara Mikkelson
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- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
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- Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
11.Which of these quotes are NOT a quote by Mary Bertone
single answer
- I wasn’t put on this Earth to make you feel like a man.
- The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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- Talkers are no good doers.
