| 100% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | He wrote "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" |
| 52% | CAMUS | 5 | Who wrote "Can one be a saint if God does not exist?" |
| 44% | ELIOT | 5 | She wrote, "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?" |
| 40% | SCIENCE | 7 | "___ is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it": Einstein |
| 39% | LAOTSE | 6 | Who wrote "He who does not trust enough will not be trusted" |
| 37% | MORRISON | 8 | Nobel laureate who said "If I tried to write a universal novel it would be water" |
| 36% | BOO | 3 | What it would be a mistake to write twice? |
| 35% | FAME | 4 | "If you come to ___ not understanding who you are, it will define who you are": Oprah Winfrey |
| 35% | MORALOBLIGATION | 15 | Something that must be done because not doing it would be wrong |
| 34% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote "Housework, if you do it right, will kill you" |
| 34% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 34% | SARTRE | 6 | He wrote, "I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating" |
| 33% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes" |
| 33% | RENAME | 6 | It's said to be bad luck if you do this to a boat |
| 33% | OPTIONAL | 8 | Not required, do this if you want to do it |
| 33% | SOAPSTONE | 9 | It is not possible to do the washing with it |
| 33% | OPTIONAL | 8 | You can choose to do it if you want, not obligatory |
| 33% | STOWE | 5 | Best-selling author who wrote "I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation" |
| 31% | ARESO | 5 | Potential reply to "I am not a crook," if you assume Nixon said it on a playground |
| 31% | COLINKAEPERNICK | 15 | He said, “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way” |
| 31% | ROT | 3 | "If the fruits are not picked soon, they will begin to ___." (decompose) |
| 31% | ABLE | 4 | "Will you be ___ to do it?" |
| 31% | OVERRATED | 9 | Not all it's cracked up to be |
| 31% | TSELIOT | 7 | He said the most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible |
| 30% | DRSEUSS | 7 | Who wrote "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not" |
| 30% | WESAY | 5 | "It doesn't matter what ___, he's going to do it if he wants to": 2 wds. |
| 30% | UNABLE | 6 | Not being able to do something |
| 30% | SHAM | 4 | Not what it seems to be |