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1. Finish the Oscar Wilde quote: "Be yourself ..."

From Quiz Quotes of Oscar Wilde

Answer: Everyone else is taken.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who was noted for his wit. He was born in Dublin, Ireland to successful Ango-Irish intellectuals. He is best remembered for his plays, his novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and for his criminal conviction for "gross indecency".

From Quiz Quotation Marks

Answer: leap

Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon in July 1969 was an incredible feat achieved by the United States. To this day, it's still considered one of the most amazing moments in world history.

From Quiz We have to talk about ...

Answer: a lamppost how it feels about dogs

At least the lamppost gets a warm feeling ... at first. Christopher Hampton was a British playwright, screenwriter and film director. He won two Tony Awards, and was best known for the play 'Dangerous Liaisons.'

From Quiz That's What She Said!

Answer: cake

Our dear Queen Marie-Antoinette, famously naive and pathetically ignorant! Okay, to be fair, she might have not actually said those words - in fact, she probably didn't. But history being written by the winners, and the winners in this case being the revolutionaries, it seems that history wants Marie Antoinette to be a git... Thus it came to be told that, genuinely oblivious of the misery in which the French people lived under her husband King Louis XVI, this is all that the very young queen had to say to an advisor who informed their majesties that their people were starving. "They have no more bread? Let them eat cake!".

From Quiz Completely Answerless

Answer: See

Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, which campaigned against treating Blacks as second class citizens.

From Quiz Ask Me About My Vow of Silence!

Answer: fools

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), a well known essayist and scientist, died of pneumonia he'd contracted while studying the effects freezing had on meat.

From Quiz Just Sayin'

Answer: angry

Beecher was both a US Abolitionist and clergyman. He may have had in mind the bible verse that "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34. Unfortunately, it's often what is said in anger that plumbs the depths of our true feelings. I'm not quite sure how you might recall what someone says when he's alone! Sources: quotationspage.com, and King James Bible

From Quiz Are You Gonna Finish That?

Answer: ". . . the same enemies as you have."

Abraham Lincoln had many friends, but also many enemies. He was born in Hardin county, KY.

From Quiz Quotes by Dr Johnson

Answer: the high road that leads him to England

One of his fellow guests, the Rev John Ogilvie, had spoken in praise of the "noble wild prospects" of the Scottish landscape. Johnson had a typical anti-Scottish put-down at the ready. Although England and Scotland had been under the same crown for more than a century and a half, full political union was not much more than 50 years old. To many English, the Scots were still fairly foreign, and Johnson's jibe reflects a not uncommon English attitude to the "Scotsman on the make".

From Quiz Complete the Quote

Answer: deserve neither

Any society that will exchange a little liberty for a little security will DESERVE NEITHER and lose both.

From Quiz What Did They Say ?

Answer: without a bicycle

Attributed to Gloria Steinem. - Popular in feminist circles.

From Quiz Quotes of Oscar Wilde

Answer: Others, whenever they go.

After graduating from Oxford, Wilde returned to his home in Dublin. Wilde was disappointed when his childhood sweetheart, Florence Balcombe married Bram Stoker of "Dracula" fame.

From Quiz Quotation Marks

Answer: Americans

This is one of the most famous quotes spoken by President John F. Kennedy. It said a lot about Kennedy's character and leadership skills, and showed why the American people elected him to the presidency.

From Quiz We have to talk about ...

Answer: I think it's me.

Dylan Thomas was a poet, born in Swansea, Wales. He was noted for his ingenious use of words and imagery, and lived a life marked by alcoholism which ended prematurely at the age of 39. "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Not boring at all, Dylan!

From Quiz That's not fair!

Answer: trivial

This quote comes from Russell's 1925 essay "Freedom in Society", first published in "Harper's Magazine" (March 1926) and republished in 1928 in a collection entitled "Sceptical essays".

From Quiz That's What She Said!

Answer: understood

Born Marie Sklodowska, Polish scientist Marie Curie worked on radioactivity her entire life with her husband, Frenchman Pierre Curie. After Henri Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity from uranium in 1896, she decided to explore it further and worked on pitchblende, a kind of uranium ore. She noticed that it was four times as radioactive as uranium alone, and deduced that something else in it must have been much more radioactive. This is how she discovered radium in 1898, shortly after discovering polonium. Her work on radioactivity was important enough to have earned her two Nobel prizes (in physics and chemistry) in a field where women had to face contempt and ridicule everywhere they tried to go. In the first 100 years of the awards, only one other person won two Nobel prizes in two different fields. Certainly one of the most important scientific minds in history, she really did not fear anything. Her lifelong exposure to radiation led to her death in 1934. Not before she had changed the world, though...

From Quiz Completely Answerless

Answer: Wealth

John Locke was a very important English philosopher during the Age of Enlightenment in England. He is also known as the "Father of Liberalism".

From Quiz Ask Me About My Vow of Silence!

Answer: betrays

Confucius (551-479 BC) is credited by many scholars with giving us "The Golden Rule" (in the 'negative form': 'Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself).

From Quiz Just Sayin'

Answer: beast

The animated Star Wars series, 'The Clone Wars,' often explores philosophical questions. In this particular episode, "The Zillo Beast Strikes Back," the central characters are torn between studying what may be an intelligent life form - the last of its kind - or destroying it for fear of its own destructive capabilities. No prizes for guessing which option wins the day... Source: starwars.com

From Quiz Are You Gonna Finish That?

Answer: ". . . to speak out, and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln was a famous orator. In fact, he gave one of the most recognized speeches in the history of the United States, the Gettysburg address. It was a speech of less than 300 words.

From Quiz Quotes by Dr Johnson

Answer: a dog's walking on his hinder legs

Well, you wouldn't expect a Tory Anglican like Johnson to favour women ministers of religion, would you?

From Quiz Complete the Quote

Answer: king, priest

'Man will never be free until the last KING is strangled with the entrails of the last PRIEST.' This quotation has also been attributed to Louisa May Alcott.

From Quiz Quotes of Oscar Wilde

Answer: But sometimes age comes alone.

With money inherited from his father, Wilde set himself up as a bachelor in London and began writing poetry and plays.

From Quiz We have to talk about ...

Answer: witnesses

If a bear errs while alone in the woods, was it barely an err? Scott Adams is a satirist and the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.

From Quiz That's not fair!

Answer: polite

Winston Churchill said this in comment on the overly formal and diplomatic tone of Britain's declaration of war against Japan on December 8, 1941. In full, the quote read "Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."

From Quiz That's What She Said!

Answer: king

Yup! Not the heart of a queen! Queen Elizabeth Tudor spent her whole (long) reign making sure that no one would think her weak because of her gender. A sound success, to be sure. These words she uttered in her "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury", in preparation for an expected attack of the Spanish Armada. The year was 1588 - 30 years into her reign. Philip II, King of Spain, had been allowed by Pope Sixtus V to launch a crusade against Protestant England. His Armada of 151 ships had set sail from Lisbon and already fought in the Battle of Gravelines a few days before the speech. After the battle, the fleet meant to go rest on the Irish shore for a few days, but the winds carried it further east instead. Anticipating an attack, Elizabeth went to encourage her troops in Tilbury, giving her most famous speech. The Spanish Armada, already weakened by starvation and illness, was decimated in the following weeks. They ultimately went back to Spain with less than half of their fleet and troops. With a bit of luck, England had become the greatest naval power of the world for more than three centuries.

From Quiz Completely Answerless

Answer: Fun

Dr. Seuss was a cartoonist and children's book writer. His real name was Theodore Seuss Geisel.

From Quiz Ask Me About My Vow of Silence!

Answer: conversation

Cicero was a prolific writer. His works influenced both the American and the French revolutions. His last words, spoken to his assassins who'd been sent by Marc Antony, were reportedly, "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly."

From Quiz Just Sayin'

Answer: Criticizing

Perhaps the best advice when someone finds fault: "Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." (Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker.) Andre Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749) was a French composer, appointed by Louis XIV as Director of the Acadamie Royale de Musique. He is best known for the opera-ballet 'Les Elemens.' Sources: Destouches - robertgenn.com; Ziglar - motivatingquotes.com

From Quiz Are You Gonna Finish That?

Answer: ". . . as they make up their minds to be."

Abraham Lincoln was very stressed out. You could see it on his face in pictures taken over time. Besides the stresses of his job, he endured the deaths of two children. Later, after his own death, a third child also died at an early age.

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