End-of-year quiz
Whose Wit & Wisdom?
Match these people with the quotations below:
Woody Allen
Nora Ephron
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J.K. Rowling
Jon Stewart
George Orwell
1. “Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
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2. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
3. “You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live that long.”
4. “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
5. “The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a
classroom.”
ANSWERS
1. Nora Ephron 2. George Orwell 3. Woody Allen 4. J.K. Rowling 5. Jon Stewart
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