Notable Quotes
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.”
— Thomas Jefferson (1801)
“A country man between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans.
I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook.
Trip Hawkins (Electronic Arts) came to me about making it a game for computers.”
— John Madden 1936-2021
Richard Cadbury, son of the founder of the Cadbury Confectionery Company,
introduced the first heart-shaped box of chocolates in 1861.
Today, over 36 million are sold each year.
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth.
Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
— P.J. O’Rourke
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Only aim to do your Duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.”
— Thomas Jefferson (1775)
“If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they’ve had a bad day.”
— John Madden
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
’Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
— Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get–only with what you are expecting to give
– which is everything.”
— Katherine Hepburn