Memorize these and you could recognize 9.8% of all Quotations clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yogi Berra | 11 | "I usually take a 2-hour nap, from 1 o'clock to 4" said this great Yankee catcher |
| 2 | Richard Nixon | 11 | In 1962, 12 years early, he said, "This is my last press conference" |
| 3 | Will Rogers | 10 | This humorist often commented, "All I know is what I read in the papers" |
| 4 | Winston Churchill | 10 | In '20, long before he became P.M., he said, "In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times" |
| 5 | George Bernard Shaw | 9 | Irish-born playwright who said, "Lack ofmoney is the root of all evil" |
| 6 | It's a Wonderful Life | 9 | "Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you?" |
| 7 | money | 8 | In "Advice to a Young Tradesman" Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Remember that time is" this |
| 8 | John the Baptist | 8 | "His meat was locusts and wild honey" |
| 9 | death | 8 | According to Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin is..." this |
| 10 | Abraham Lincoln | 8 | At his 2nd inauguration he said, "With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right" |
| 11 | Ronald Reagan | 7 | When he was wounded in 1981, he jokingly said to his doctors, "Please tell me you're Republicans" |
| 12 | Oscar Wilde | 7 | In "The Picture of Dorian Gray" this author claimed, "All art is quite useless" |
| 13 | Napoleon | 7 | In 1814 he bragged, "France has more need of me than I of France" |
| 14 | Mae West | 7 | Thismovie star purred lines like "Goodness had nothing to do with it" & "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted" |
| 15 | Hollywood | 7 | Oscar Levant said, "Strip away the phony tinsel of" this town "& you'll find the real tinsel underneath" |
| 16 | Boston | 7 | In a toast, John Collins Bossidy referred to this "good old" city as "the home of the bean & the cod" |
| 17 | the truth | 7 | "When in doubt tell" this |
| 18 | King Solomon | 7 | "Divide the living child in two & give half to the one & half to the other" |
| 19 | Lyndon Johnson | 7 | Accepting presidential nomination, he said, "this nation... has man's 1st chance to build a Great Society" |
| 20 | Paris | 6 | Hemingway called this European capital "a moveable feast" |
| 21 | Chicago | 6 | Carl Sandburg called it "Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders" |
| 22 | the Cold War | 6 | Bartlett's says it was Bernard Baruch who 1st used this phrase describing "chilly" post-WWII tensions |
| 23 | Thomas Jefferson | 6 | In 1787 he wrote, "I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing" |
| 24 | Voltaire | 5 | He wrote in "Candide", "If this the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" |
| 25 | The Wizard of Oz | 5 | Movie in which Margaret Hamilton cackles, "Well, my little pretty, I can cause accidents, too." |
| 26 | Rome | 5 | "When falls the Colosseum, this city shall fall & when it falls, the world" |
| 27 | power | 5 | Henry Kissinger called it "the great aphrodisiac" |
| 28 | Mussolini | 5 | In a 1920 editorial, this future leader wrote, "The Italian proletariat needs a bloodbath" |
| 29 | Mark Twain | 5 | American humorist who advised, "Put all your eggs in one basket and--watch that basket" |
| 30 | love | 5 | Philip Bailey said “Respect is what we owe;” this, “What we give” |
| 31 | Job | 5 | God answered this sufferer's complaints: "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundations?" |
| 32 | Henry Kissinger | 5 | He said "power is the great aphrodisiac," 8; Nancy Maginnes must have believed him |
| 33 | golf | 5 | David Brenner said he doesn't like to watch this sport on TV because "I can't stand whispering" |
| 34 | Gertrude Stein | 5 | "Rose is a rose is a rose" is this writer's most famous redundancy |
| 35 | David | 5 | Women sang, "Saul has killed his thousands" but he killed "tens of thousands" |
| 36 | Daniel | 5 | He said unto the king, "My God hath sent his angel and hath shut the lion's mouths" |
| 37 | Citizen Kane | 5 | "Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted, & then lost it" |
| 38 | Casablanca | 5 | "I remember every detail, the Germans wore gray. You wore blue." |
| 39 | Airplane! | 5 | 1980:"I am serious, and don't call me Shirley" |
| 40 | (Douglas) MacArthur | 5 | Bartlett's cites both a WWI army song & him for the phrase "Old soldiers never die..." |
| 41 | W.C. Fields | 4 | "Say anything you like about me except that I drink water," quipped this comic |
| 42 | Vince Lombardi | 4 | Green Bay Packer coach who said, "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm" |
| 43 | time | 4 | “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander” this; “for that's the stuff life is made of” |
| 44 | The Graduate | 4 | "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me, aren't you?" |
| 45 | The Godfather | 4 | This 1972 movie begins with a funeral director telling Don Corleone, "I believe in America" |
| 46 | television | 4 | Ernie Kovacs described it as "a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done" |
| 47 | Muhammad Ali | 4 | Prior to a 1980 fight, he said "If Holmes don't C-sharp, he'll B-flat" |
| 48 | Moses | 4 | Trying graciously to refuse the job, he told God, "I am slow of speech, & of a slow tongue" |
| 49 | London | 4 | Samuel Johnson said, "When a man is tired of" this city, "he is tired of life" |
| 50 | liberty | 4 | A watchword among founding fathers was "Where" this "dwells, there is my country" |