Thursday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 31

Easy Quotefall by Peace Pilgrim

Peace Pilgrim, born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American pacifist, vegetarian, and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season.

Hard Quotefall by Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. His contributions included the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and was a staunch proponent of the scientific method.

Both puzzles expire on Apr 6

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Wednesday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 30

Easy Quotefall by John Keats

John Keats was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. His series of odes are among the most popular poems in the English language.

Hard Quotefall by Robert Green Ingersoll

Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator. He is known for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism, and was one of America's first advocates of "freethought" and humanism.

Both puzzles expire on Apr 5

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Tuesday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 29

Easy Quotefall by Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Irish writer and physician. He is most well known for his iconic poem, "The Deserted Village."

Hard Quotefall by Ben Carson

Ben Carson is a noted American neurosurgeon. He became the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital when he was 33 years old. He is most noted for successfully separating Siamese twins who were joined at the head and shared part of the same brain.

Both puzzles expire on Apr 4

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Monday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 28

Easy Quotefall by George Moore

George Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. He is often regarded as the first great modern Irish novelist.

Hard Quotefall by Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. His works emoted tragedy with dry comedy, including these stories: "Tutto per bene," "Come prima meglio di prima," and "La Signora Morli."

Both puzzles expire on Apr 3

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Sunday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 27

Easy Quotefall by Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Ann Seton was a philanthropist who helped with the formation of the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows with Small Children, NYC's first private charity organization.

Hard Quotefall by James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States. He had also served as a major general in the United States Army and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Both puzzles expire on Apr 2

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Saturday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 26

Easy Quotefall by South African Proverb

South African proverbs are the direct reflections of wisdom, morals, and customs of South Africans.

Hard Quotefall by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest physicists of all time. His contributions include the general theory of relativity, as well as social activism against war.

Both puzzles expire on Apr 1

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Friday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 25

Easy Quotefall by Rene Dubos

Rene Dubos was an environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who exemplified qualities of the modern Renaissance person. He is credited as an author of the maxim "Think globally, act locally."

Hard Quotefall by Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin was a comedy actor, director and musician. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns caught on film and is considered to be the first major film star in history.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 31

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Thursday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 24

Easy Quotefall by George V. Higgins

George V. Higgins was a United States author, lawyer, newspaper columnist, and college professor. He is best known for his bestselling crime novels noted for his realistic dialogue.

Hard Quotefall by Josh Billings

Josh Billings was the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the 2nd half of the 19th century after Mark Twain. His books include "Josh Billings' Sayings," "Everybody's Friend," and "Josh Billings' Trump Kards."

Both puzzles expire on Mar 30

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Wednesday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 23

Easy Quotefall by Alan W. Watts

Alan W. Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Eastern philosophy.

Hard Quotefall by François Rabelais

François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer. As a doctor, he used his spare time to write and publish humorous pamphlets which were critical of established authority and stressed his own perception of individual liberty.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 29

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Tuesday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 22

Easy Quotefall by Jean De La Bruyere

Jean de La Bruyere was a 17th Century French essayist and moralist. He wrote about contemporary issues which created, by his words, "many readers and many enemies."

Hard Quotefall by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson was one of England's greatest literary figures. He was a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and often considered the finest critic of English literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist whose words are still frequently quoted in print today.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 28

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Monday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 21

Easy Quotefall by Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He edited and published two magazines, The Philistine and The Fra, which were bound in brown butcher paper and full of satire and whimsy.

Hard Quotefall by Maggie Kuhn

Maggie Kuhn was a lifelong American activist. Forced into retirement by the church, Kuhn started the movement to acknowledge elderly people as "America's biggest untapped and undervalued human energy source."

Both puzzles expire on Mar 27

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Sunday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 20

Easy Quotefall by Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot is a French actress, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten.

Hard Quotefall by Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer. Influenced by Marcel Proust and by the techniques of Film, Bowen was considered the most vivid presenter of wartime London than any other writer.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 26

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Saturday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 19

Easy Quotefall by Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. Commander in Chief of the Union Forces during the American Civil War, Lincoln is judged to be one of the greatest presidents in US history.

Hard Quotefall by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher. He led the republican intellectual opposition under the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, and also played a role in the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII in 1931.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 25

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Friday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 18

Easy Quotefall by Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson was an American contralto. She is best remembered for her performance on Easter Sunday, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Hard Quotefall by Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller was an English churchman and historian. A prolific writer, he penned two significant books, "A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine", and his own "Church-History of Britain" in 1655. These books established his place in English theological prominence.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 24

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Thursday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 17

Easy Quotefall by James A. Michener

James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 books whose subjects covered the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporated many historical facts.

Hard Quotefall by Mark Twain

Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Both puzzles expire on Mar 23

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Wednesday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 16

Easy Quotefall by Robert H. Schuller

Robert H. Schuller is an American televangelist, pastor, and author. He is also the founder of the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, where the Hour of Power program originates.

Hard Quotefall by Giovani della Casa

Giovani (or Giovanni) della Casa was an Italian poet and statesman who wrote with oratorical style. He is credited as the first person to use the phrase "ragion di Stato", or "reason of state," in his Oration to Carlo V in 1549.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 22

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Tuesday's Quotefall Puzzles: Mar 15

Easy Quotefall by Alexander Smith

Alexander Smith was a Scottish novelist and poet. He wrote "A Life Drama," "Dreamthorp: Essays Written in the Country," and "A Summer in Skye."

Hard Quotefall by Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca the Elder, was a Roman rhetorician and writer in the Roman Empire. His writings include the ten books of "The Controversiae," in which he wrote about the main themes for contemporary oratory.

Both puzzles expire on Mar 21

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