| This "A Tramp Abroad" author opined, "Wagner's music is better than it sounds" |
(Mark) Twain |
200 |
April 13, 2005 |
| "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end", said this British "Iron Lady" |
(Margaret) Thatcher |
400 |
April 13, 2005 |
| In 2005, shortly after announcing her engagement (after a 35-year affair), she said, "I'm just coming down to Earth" |
Camilla Parker Bowles |
600 |
April 13, 2005 |
| "A fool and his money are soon elected", said this humorist who died in 1935 |
Will Rogers |
800 |
April 13, 2005 |
| From his "Devil's Dictionary": "Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country" |
(Ambrose) Bierce |
1000 |
April 13, 2005 |
| Karl Marx: This "is the opium of the people" |
religion |
200 |
February 25, 2005 |
| Mark Twain:"Familiarity breeds contempt--and" these |
children |
400 |
February 25, 2005 |
| Napoleon:"From" this "to the ridiculous is but a step" |
the sublime |
600 |
February 25, 2005 |
| Kipling:"And a woman is only a woman, but a good" this "is a smoke" |
a cigar |
800 |
February 25, 2005 |
| Shakespeare:"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and" this? |
ale |
1000 |
February 25, 2005 |
| This Biblical shepherd asked, "Shall I go and smite these Philistines?" |
David |
200 |
January 27, 2003 |
| This humorist used to open his lectures with "All I know is just what I read in the papers" |
Will Rogers |
400 |
January 27, 2003 |
| In a letter, Ben Franklin wrote that this was "a much more respectable bird" than the bald eagle |
wild turkey |
600 |
January 27, 2003 |
| The 1711 work "Essay on Criticism" says, "A little learning is" this |
a dangerous thing |
800 |
January 27, 2003 |
| Pres. Eisenhower claimed that appointing him chief justice was the "biggest damfool mistake I ever made" |
Earl Warren |
1000 |
January 27, 2003 |
| His "Little Red Book" calls reactionaries "Paper tigers, dead tigers, bean-curd tigers" |
Mao Tse-tung |
100 |
July 17, 1997 |
| To Emily Dickinson, this genre "Makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me" |
Poetry |
200 |
July 17, 1997 |
| It follows Jesus' words, "For many are called" |
"But few are chosen" |
300 |
July 17, 1997 |
| "Music has" these "to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak" |
Charms |
500 |
July 17, 1997 |
| In 1994 he said his countrymen were as attached to the land as "The famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria" |
Nelson Mandela |
|
July 17, 1997 |
| Robert Lowell wrote, "If we see a light" here, "it's the light of an oncoming train" |
at the end of the tunnel |
100 |
January 11, 1994 |
| On arriving in this city, Robert Benchley telegramed, "Streets full of water. Please advise" |
Venice |
200 |
January 11, 1994 |
| W.C. Fields said, "It's a funny old world--a man's lucky if he gets out of it" this way |
alive |
300 |
January 11, 1994 |
| Arthur Miller work that includes the line "He's liked, but he's not--well liked |
<i>Death of a Salesman</i> |
400 |
January 11, 1994 |
| He said of the Gunpowder Plot, "A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy |
Guy Fawkes |
500 |
January 11, 1994 |
| This animal has been described as "a pogo stick with a pouch" |
a kangaroo |
100 |
July 1, 1993 |
| Seneca wrote, "What fools these mortals be" centuries before this dramatist |
Shakespeare |
200 |
July 1, 1993 |
| The quote "I am looking for" this type of "man" has been attributed to Aesop & to Diogenes the Cynic |
an honest man |
300 |
July 1, 1993 |
| Aristotle said, "One" of these birds "does not make a summer; neither does one fine day" |
a swallow |
400 |
July 1, 1993 |
| The first line of "The American Crisis, No. 1", a 1776 tract by Thomas Paine |
These are the times that try men\'s souls |
500 |
July 1, 1993 |
| Mark Twain said, "Everyone is" one of these heavenly bodies "and has a dark side which he never shows" |
a moon |
100 |
May 27, 1993 |
| A famous quote about suckers says they're born this often |
every minute |
200 |
May 27, 1993 |
| Prime minister who said in 1941, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never" |
Winston Churchill |
300 |
May 27, 1993 |
| The most famous quote from "1984" is undoubtedly "Big Brother is" doing this |
watching you |
400 |
May 27, 1993 |
| This author wrote of "making the world safe for hypocrisy" in "Look Homeward, Angel" |
Thomas Wolfe |
500 |
May 27, 1993 |
| This state has been called "The Keystone of the Democratic Arch" |
Pennsylvania |
100 |
February 22, 1993 |
| In a 1987 speech, he said, "The idea of perestroika...combines continuity and innovation" |
(Mikhail) Gorbachev |
200 |
February 22, 1993 |
| Eldridge Cleaver said, "You're either part of" this "or part of the problem" |
the solution |
300 |
February 22, 1993 |
| In her famous diary, she wrote, "I still believe that people are really good at heart" |
Anne Frank |
400 |
February 22, 1993 |
| W.P. Kinsella's book "Shoeless Joe" contains the line "If you build it" this will happen |
he will come |
500 |
February 22, 1993 |
| George Washington said, "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving" this |
Peace |
100 |
November 10, 1992 |
| Alexander Pope described this personal anniversary as "the funeral of the former year" |
birthday |
200 |
November 10, 1992 |
| This Indian leader said "Nonviolence is the first article of my faith and the last article of my creed" |
Mohandas Gandhi |
300 |
November 10, 1992 |
| Jean de la Bruyere said "Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens" this emotion |
Love |
400 |
November 10, 1992 |
| On accepting a seat in the British parliament she said, "I am a Virginian, so naturally I am a politician" |
Lady Astor |
500 |
November 10, 1992 |
| Erich Segal's script for this film gave us the line "Love means never having to say you're sorry" |
<i>Love Story</i> |
100 |
July 10, 1992 |
| According to Emerson, "Every ship that comes to America got its chart from" him |
Columbus |
200 |
July 10, 1992 |
| This coach said, "Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport" |
Vince Lombardi |
300 |
July 10, 1992 |
| Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The god who gave us life, gave us" this "at the same time" |
liberty |
400 |
July 10, 1992 |
| Adele Davis wrote, "... thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied" this |
health |
500 |
July 10, 1992 |
| "It is easier for a camel to go through" this "than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" |
the eye of a needle |
100 |
May 5, 1992 |
| The Christophers" motto is "It is better to light one" of these "than to curse the darkness" |
a candle |
200 |
May 5, 1992 |
| Time magazine said this man "and the FBI were oneâcreator and creation" |
(J. Edgar) Hoover |
300 |
May 5, 1992 |
| He wrote of human speech in "Madame Bovary", "We long to make music that will melt the stars" |
Gustave Flaubert |
400 |
May 5, 1992 |
| "He who praises everybody, praises nobody" is a footnote in his "Life of Johnson" |
Boswell |
500 |
May 5, 1992 |
| In his "Essay on Criticism", Alexander Pope said, "To err is human, to forgive" is this |
divine |
100 |
January 7, 1992 |
| W.T. Ballard said, "You can take a boy out of" this NYC borough, "but you can never get" it "out of the boy" |
Brooklyn |
200 |
January 7, 1992 |
| Samuel Johnson said to this author, "You have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both" |
Boswell |
300 |
January 7, 1992 |
| Mortally wounded, Capt. James Lawrence said, "Tell the men to fire faster and" don't do this |
don\'t give up the ship |
400 |
January 7, 1992 |
| In "McCulloch v. Maryland" he said "We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding" |
John Marshall |
500 |
January 7, 1992 |
| Before his heavyweight title fight Joe Louis said of Billy Conn, "He can run, but he can't" do this |
hide |
100 |
July 16, 1991 |
| "Dear fatherland, no danger thine: firm stands thy watch along" this river |
the Rhine |
200 |
July 16, 1991 |
| Former Sec'y of State Shultz said, "Who walks in the middle of" this "gets hit from both sides" |
the road |
300 |
July 16, 1991 |
| In 1849 they wrote, "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class" |
Marx & Engels |
400 |
July 16, 1991 |
| In 1787 he wrote, "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing" |
Thomas Jefferson |
500 |
July 16, 1991 |
| Samuel Johnson wrote, "It matters not how a man dies, but how he" does this |
lives |
100 |
May 13, 1991 |
| In a poem about this man, Longfellow said, "The fate of a nation was riding that night" |
Paul Revere |
200 |
May 13, 1991 |
| In 1852 F. Douglass said, "To the American slave" the celebration of this holiday "is a sham" |
Independence Day (the 4th of July) |
300 |
May 13, 1991 |
| La Rochefoucauld said, "The mind is always the dupe of" this organ |
the heart |
500 |
May 13, 1991 |
| Herman Melville said this facial expression "is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities" |
a smile |
|
May 13, 1991 |
| Georges Clemenceau called this "much too important a matter to be left to the generals" |
War |
100 |
January 17, 1991 |
| The "Cynics' Cyclopedia" defined this as "Patrick Henry's second choice" |
Death |
200 |
January 17, 1991 |
| An anonymous wag defined a king as "a highly paid model for" these "sticky things" |
Postage Stamps |
300 |
January 17, 1991 |
| Mark Twain said this "Parsifal" composer's music "is better than it sounds" |
Richard Wagner |
400 |
January 17, 1991 |
| This "Candide" author said, "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything" |
Voltaire |
500 |
January 17, 1991 |
| It was Edward Francis Albee who first said "Never give a sucker" one of these |
An even break |
100 |
November 6, 1990 |
| Nicholas Murray Butler called an expert "One who knows more and more about" this |
Less and less |
200 |
November 6, 1990 |
| In 1898 William Randolph Hearst cabled Frederic Remington, "You furnish the pictures & I'll furnish" this |
The war |
400 |
November 6, 1990 |
| Leo Rosten said of him, "Anyone who hates babies & dogs can't be all bad" |
W.C. Fields |
500 |
November 6, 1990 |
| An 1855 book subtitled "The Economical Relations of Slavery" was titled this "Is King" |
Cotton |
|
November 6, 1990 |
| "At two hours after midnight appeared the land," he wrote in his journal October 12, 1492 |
Columbus |
100 |
September 17, 1990 |
| Hollywood has been called "the only asylum run by" these people |
the inmates |
200 |
September 17, 1990 |
| The phrase "The War that Will End War" is the title of a 1914 book by this author of "The Time Machine" |
H.G. Wells |
300 |
September 17, 1990 |
| The lyricist who coined the phrase "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain" |
(Alan Jay) Lerner |
400 |
September 17, 1990 |
| In his notebooks this Renaissance artist claimed "The Medici created and destroyed me." |
Leonardo (da Vinci) |
500 |
September 17, 1990 |
| Robert Frost wrote, "To" do this "is human, not to, animal" |
err |
100 |
April 6, 1990 |
| In "An Essay on Man" Pope wrote this "springs eternal in the human breast" |
hope |
200 |
April 6, 1990 |
| Carl Sandburg wrote, "Sometime they'll give" one of these "and nobody will come" |
war |
400 |
April 6, 1990 |
| Kipling said, "He travels the fastest who travels" this way |
alone |
500 |
April 6, 1990 |
| Advised not to be a lawyer, as the profession was overcrowded, D. Webster said, "There is always room" here |
at the top |
|
April 6, 1990 |
| Ben Franklin said, "3 may keep a secret, if 2 of them are" this |
Dead |
100 |
December 21, 1989 |
| Douglas MacArthur said, "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to" do this |
Win |
200 |
December 21, 1989 |
| He wrote in "Candide", "If this the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" |
Voltaire |
300 |
December 21, 1989 |
| Churchill called this country "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" |
Soviet Union/Russia |
400 |
December 21, 1989 |
| On May 23, 1775 he said, "Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace" |
Patrick Henry |
|
December 21, 1989 |
| Hollywood empire builder who "Labored like a mountain and brought forth a mouse" |
Walt Disney |
100 |
November 27, 1989 |
| American humorist who was dubbed "Poet Lariat" |
Will Rogers, Jr. |
200 |
November 27, 1989 |
| A player said of this late Green Bay coach, "He treats every man the same; he treats us all like dogs" |
Vince Lombardi |
300 |
November 27, 1989 |
| Those who knew this actress agreed with her statement "I've been on a calendar, but never on time" |
Marilyn Monroe |
400 |
November 27, 1989 |
| In 1952 a critic called this Fr. philosopher the "Decade's foremost theatrical confidence man" |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
|
November 27, 1989 |
| In the "Aeneid", Virgil wrote, "I fear" them "even when they bring gifts" |
Greeks |
100 |
November 10, 1989 |
| England's James I called it "Hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs" |
Tobacco |
200 |
November 10, 1989 |
| 19th C. German chancellor who spoke of "Blut und Eisen", meaning "blood & iron" |
Otto von Bismarck |
300 |
November 10, 1989 |
| Longfellow called it "The Universal Language of Mankind" |
Music |
400 |
November 10, 1989 |
| Pascal said if her "nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed" |
Cleopatra (of Egypt) |
500 |
November 10, 1989 |
| During the filming of "Citizen Kane", it was said of him, "There but for the grace of God goes God" |
Orson Welles |
100 |
October 25, 1989 |
| Around 1803 Madame de Staël remarked that he "is nothing more than Robespierre on horseback" |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
200 |
October 25, 1989 |
| Albert Einstein said this woman scientist was "the only one whom fame has not corrupted" |
Marie Curie |
300 |
October 25, 1989 |
| Churchill said this Sec'y of State under Ike was "a bull who carries his china shop with him" |
John Foster Dulles |
400 |
October 25, 1989 |
| Witty New Yorker who once called herself "the toast of 2 continents: Greenland & Australia" |
Dorothy Parker |
500 |
October 25, 1989 |
| Robert Burns wrote, "We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, for" this |
auld lang syne |
100 |
March 22, 1989 |
| Author of "The Bell Jar" who said, "Dying is an art...I do it exceptionally well" |
Sylvia Plath |
200 |
March 22, 1989 |
| Of this "ship" Longfellow said, "Sail on, o union, strong and great! Humanity...is hanging...on thy fate" |
Ship of State |
300 |
March 22, 1989 |
| In 1643 this future lord protector claimed "A few honest men are better than numbers" |
Oliver Cromwell |
400 |
March 22, 1989 |
| Gustave Flaubert said, "One becomes" one of these "when one cannot be an artist" |
a critic |
500 |
March 22, 1989 |
| She claims "Darling, I am a wonderful housekeeper. After every divorce I keep the house" |
Zsa Zsa Gabor |
100 |
July 14, 1987 |
| "Show me a hero & I will write you a tragedy"--& both he & Zelda died tragically |
Scott Fitzgerald |
200 |
July 14, 1987 |
| Algonquin wit, she suggested for her epitaph, "Excuse my dust" |
Dorothy Parker |
300 |
July 14, 1987 |
| He advised housewives on TV "If your husband is a breast or a leg man, ask for my chicken parts" |
Frank Perdue |
400 |
July 14, 1987 |
| Architect Louis Sullivan formulated the architectural dictum "Form follows" this |
function |
500 |
July 14, 1987 |
| Lauren Bacall said "He cried at every one of his own weddings--& with good reason" |
Humphrey Bogart |
100 |
May 15, 1987 |
| What Richard Grafton was talking about in 1570 when he concluded with "all the rest have 31" |
months |
200 |
May 15, 1987 |
| When Horace Greeley said it, he continued with "& grow up with the country" |
Go west, young man |
300 |
May 15, 1987 |
| Architect Le Corbusier said this "is a machine for living in" |
a house |
400 |
May 15, 1987 |
| Order George Pope Morris gave to the woodman |
Spare that tree! |
500 |
May 15, 1987 |
| Illegal occupation referred to in the saying, "The best way to make money is to make money" |
counterfeiting |
100 |
April 6, 1987 |
| Henry Ford said, then later denied saying, "History is more or less" this |
bunk |
200 |
April 6, 1987 |
| Lewis Mumford said in 1961, "Our national flower is" this type of highway interchange |
the cloverleaf |
300 |
April 6, 1987 |
| Sam Goldwyn said, "So many people showed up at Louis B. Mayer's funeral... to make sure" of this |
that he was dead |
400 |
April 6, 1987 |
| "Too many cooks spoil the brothel," said this most famous N.Y. madam of the '20s & '30s |
Polly Adler |
500 |
April 6, 1987 |
| Film in which you'd hear the line "Open the pod bay door, HAL" |
<i>2001 (A Space Odyssey)</i> |
100 |
December 22, 1986 |
| Hemingway called this European capital "a moveable feast" |
Paris |
200 |
December 22, 1986 |
| In "Klondike Annie" she said, "Between 2 evils, I always pick the one I never tried" |
Mae West |
300 |
December 22, 1986 |
| Baum wrote "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with..." this |
yellow bricks |
400 |
December 22, 1986 |
| Bandleader who said in 1977, "When I go I'll take New Year's Eve with me" |
Guy Lombardo |
100 |
September 8, 1986 |
| Finishes Lord Chesterfield's 1749 line; "No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off..." |
until tomorrow what you can do today |
200 |
September 8, 1986 |
| Word which completes the line from "The Virginian", "When you call me that, ...." |
smile |
300 |
September 8, 1986 |
| Theodore Roosevelt's adage with which "you will go far" |
"Speak softly and carry a big stick, and..." |
400 |
September 8, 1986 |
| In Bartlett's, the line from Shakespeare's "Henry V", "The game's afoot", footnotes this other author |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
500 |
September 8, 1986 |