1. Match the quotations in the left column with the correct attribution in the right column.
2. E-mail me at my Myspace page (http://www.myspace.com/liberazoo) Or at davirand@hotmail.com with a list of numbers and letters. For example: 1) S; 2) B; 3) C
3. Each correct match is worth 1 point. For extra credit (worth 1 additional point), type the words EXTRA CREDIT at the end of your e-mail with the number and letter of the one quotation/attribution which the famous person admits s/he never said but it is popularly believed that s/he really said it.
3. The entry with the most points wins a $25 money order.
4. If more than one entry has the same number of winning points, the winner will be determined through a random drawing by an independent judge (other than myself).
5. In your e-mail, include your name and address so that I can make out the money order and send it to the winner.
6. Entries must be received by midnight on February 15th, 2008. Winner will be declared by e-mail in my blog on myspace and my blog at http://davrand.wordpress.com
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(1) “I’ve got ‘Merry Christmas’ tattooed on my left thigh and ‘Happy New Year’ tattooed on my right thigh. Why don’t you come up and visit me between the holidays?”
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A. Jerry Seinfeld, American Comedian
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(2) “We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
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B. George W. Bush, American President
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(3) “Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.”
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C. Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Inventor and Artist (1452-1519)
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(4) “Every part of an element separated from its mass desires to return to it by the shortest way.”
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D. Jean Anouilh, (1910-1987), French Playwright
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(5) “Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.”
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E. Richard Sheridan (1751-1816), Irish Playwright
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(6) “What? Me, worry?”
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F. Mae West, American Actress (1893 – 1980)
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(7) “Smoking kills, and if you’re killed, it ruins your quality of life.”
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G. Dorothy Parker, U.S. Author, Humorist, Poet, & Wit (1893 – 1967)
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(8) “I have very strong opinions. Sometimes I even disagree with them.”
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H. Brooke Shields, American Actress
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(9) “God helps those who help themselves.”
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I. Henry Louis Mencken, American Humorist, Journalist, and Critic (1880-1956)
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(10) “For men will be lovers of the self…ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
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J. Alfred E. Neuman (Mascot of Mad Magazine)
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(11) “I would prefer not to.”
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K. Paul (in a letter to Timothy, paraphrase of King James version of the Bible, Tim. 3:2,7)
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(12) “I like reality. It tastes like bread.”
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L. Moliere (1622-1673), French Playwright
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(13) “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
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M. Phineas Barnum (1812-1846), U.S. Showman
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(14) “A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.”
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N. Benjamin Franklin, American Statesman and Inventor (1706 – 1790)
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(15) “I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.”
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O. Bartleby, the Scrivener (a character of Herman Melville’s, American Author, 1819-1891)
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(16) “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”
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P. Thomas Alva Edison, U.S Inventor (1847-1931)
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(17) “Vice is its own reward.”
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Q. Lewis Carroll, English Logician, Mathematician, Photographer, and Novelist (1832 – 1898)
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(18) “The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.”
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R. Quentin Crisp, English Author (1908 – 1999)
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(19) “Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there.”
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S. Margaret Mead (1901-1978), U.S. Anthropologist
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(20) “If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”
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T. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish Playwright, Author.
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