Quotation challenge ( The Star )
By OH TEIK THEAM
ENJOY the quotations below, but you need to unscramble the italicised letters first!
1. When moeginsth can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. (Enrique Jardiel Poncela)
2. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for moeyn. (Samuel Johnson)
3. I never write moepitrols for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money from cop. (Mark Twain)
4. My library was moekudd large enough. (William Shakespeare)
5. When moeny talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses. (Anonymous)
6. Misquotations are the only quotations that are never moesitduq. (Hesketh Pearson)
7. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many moesp, was often a woman. (Virginia Woolf)
8. If sex is a natural moepenhonn, how come there are so many books on how to? (Bette Midler)
9. Only a moerdice person is always at his best. (W. Somerset Maugham)
10. Failure is the moenintdc that gives success its flavour. (Truman Capote)
11. A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is moecover by habit. (Desiderius Erasmus)
12. Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women like to be a man’s last moercan. (Oscar Wilde)
13. Men do not realise how great an moecin thrift is. (Cicero)
14. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to moenndc an innocent one. (Voltaire)
15. If you are patient in one moetnm of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. (Chinese Proverb)
Answers
1.something 2.money
3.metropolis 4.dukedom
5.money 6.misquoted 7.poems
8.phenomenon 9.mediocre
10.condiment 11.overcome
12.romance 13.income
14.condemn 15.moment
