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Bible or Shakespeare quiz.
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4 members have voted
| April 5th, 2022 at 9:45:58 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | The rules are pretty simple -- is each quote from the Bible or Shakespeare? Bible quotes are from the King James version.
Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| April 5th, 2022 at 10:00:24 PM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 189 Posts: 18762 |
I only put the ones I think are the Bible, so all the others are Shakes. 3,7,12,16 You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
| April 5th, 2022 at 10:15:45 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Of your four, three were in the Bible. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| April 6th, 2022 at 2:41:44 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5108 | guesses largely To thine own self be true...........................Bard, Hamlet Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength…............. Bible Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?...........................Bard Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we may die............................Bard, but I think this goes back to the Romans Men of few words are the best men...........................Bible and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth............................Bard Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing...........................Bible, Proverbs For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out...........................Bible, Paul's Epistles Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward...........................Bible Neither a borrower nor a lender be...........................Bible A merry heart doeth good like a medicine...........................Bible Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth...........................Bible All that glisters is not gold.................................Bible [glistens?] The better part of valor is discretion............................Bard Lord, what fools these mortals be!............................Bard, Puck in A midsummer night's dream For what is your life? [snip]... and then vanisheth away............................Bible, Paul's Epistles Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears............................Bible A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts............................Bible. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| April 6th, 2022 at 2:51:20 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5108 | I am pretty sure Shakespeare seldom used 'thee, thy, thou' and all that, though I could be wrong. In the age of focus on pronouns, I have to remark that these "early English second person singular pronouns" used to really bother me when I was a kid and the preacher used them to address God in prayer. I felt that it was very stiff and formal and that God would not insist on that. Turns out what I didn't understand was in those early times 'thee, thou' etc was in fact the very personal, intimate pronouns you would have used in those days to address a very close friend or relative, instead of 'you' etc. In other words, it was the complete opposite of what I thought it was. I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |
| April 6th, 2022 at 3:09:39 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | All Shakespeare except "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength…" "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth" "A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." The one quote that was not listed is King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4. To odiousgambit: In Spanish one word for English "you" is "usted" which comes from "vuestra merced" (literally "your mercy" or "your grace" ), The other word is "tú" which is informal or familiar "you". Spanish speakers hate the English word "do", the third most common English verb after "to be" and "to have". An early meaning of the verb 'do', from the 1300's was to "prosper" or "thrive". 1563-87, recorded the first-known citation of a version of 'how do you' as an inquiry after someone's health: "How do you" means "How prosper you?" and is clearly the exact 1500s equivalent of our present day 'how are you?'. It was specifically asking after someone's health and a reply in kind would have been expected. The change in usage from a query about health to a greeting was gradual. Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela Or Virtue Rewarded, 1740 is an early example of a greeting:O my good old Acquaintances, said I, I joy to see you ? How do you do Rachel? How do you all do? It was some time later, not until the late 1700s in fact, that 'how do you do' began to be widely used as a general greeting. |
| April 6th, 2022 at 10:50:02 AM permalink | |
| missedhervee Member since: Apr 23, 2021 Threads: 96 Posts: 3103 | As a former Catholic til age 15 and an atheist thereafter I am wholly unfamiliar with the King James bible and will sit this one out. Good quiz though for those with a foot planted in both worlds (the sacred and the profane). |
| April 6th, 2022 at 6:57:56 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
By my count, you missed four. To thine own self be true...........................Bard, Hamlet YES Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength…............. Bible YES Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?...........................Bard YES Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we may die............................Bard, but I think this goes back to the Romans NO Men of few words are the best men...........................Bible NO and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth............................Bard NO Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing...........................Bible, Proverbs YES For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out...........................Bible, Paul's Epistles YES, the book of Timothy to be specific Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward...........................Bible YES Neither a borrower nor a lender be...........................Bible NO A merry heart doeth good like a medicine...........................Bible YES Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth...........................Bible YES All that glisters is not gold.................................Bible [glistens?] NO The better part of valor is discretion............................Bard YES Lord, what fools these mortals be!............................Bard, Puck in A midsummer night's dream YES -- CORRECT BOOK TOO. For what is your life? [snip]... and then vanisheth away............................Bible, Paul's Epistles YES, book of James Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears............................Bible YES A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts............................Bible. YES Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| April 6th, 2022 at 7:00:32 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
There are many other from the bible other than the three you list. I added your King Lear quote to my list. It will probably be my April 14 newsletter. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| April 7th, 2022 at 3:43:18 AM permalink | |
| odiousgambit Member since: Oct 28, 2012 Threads: 154 Posts: 5108 | 'glisters' is correct in the original, as it turns out I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me] |