09/11/24 Grif.Net - Famous Sentences Quiz
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[Here are some famous sentences from literature. Your task, if you choose to accept it, is to give either the BOOK or the AUTHOR from which we lifted the sentence. To REALLY show mastery, you may give them BOTH. Or just read the sentences and smile and let other smarty-pants wrack brains for either answer!]
1. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.”
2. “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
3. “From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
4. “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
5. “My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
6. “The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end.”
7. “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
8. “Time moves slowly but passes quickly.”
9. “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
10. “All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait’ and ‘Hope’.”
11. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
12. “Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.”
13. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
14. “All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.”
15. “By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, by the shining Big Sea water, stood the wigwam of Nokomis.”
[answers Friday]
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
