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The Post Quiz: Quotable Quotes

Groucho Marx.

There are lots of quotable quotes in the Edited Guide. Match these to their authors. NOTE: There may be some dispute about these authors. The people listed are the ones who made these sayings popular.

  1. There is a Chinese curse which says,

    'May he live in interesting times'.
  2. It ain't over 'til it's over.
  3. To dance is to give oneself up to the rhythms of life.
  4. Some men there are love not a gaping pig;

    Some that are mad if they behold a cat.
  5. Let me assert my firm belief that the only

    thing we have to fear is fear itself.
  6. Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
  7. It's impossible for me to be happy when I am stripped

    and being asked a lot of questions.
  8. So far as I know, my behaviour at any given moment

    has been nothing more than the product of my genetic endowment,

    my personal history, and the current setting.
  9. Gossip is nature's telephone.
  10. What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is.

    If I wish to explain it to him who asks me, I do not know.
  • Sholom Aleichem.
  • Shakespeare.
  • Augustine.
  • BF Skinner.
  • MarkTwain.
  • Franklin Roosevelt.
  • James Thurber.
  • Yogi Berra.
  • Maya V Patel.
  • Robert Kennedy.

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