Author Archives: Cathy Burnham Martin

  “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.“ — Sean O’Casey (1880 – 1964) Irish playwright & memoirist

  “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” — Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) Bengali polymath (poet, writer, philosopher, playwright, songwriter, painter, composer & social reformer) 1st Asian to … Continue reading →

  “The essence of genius is knowing what to overlook.” — William James (1842 – 1910) American psychologist and philosopher 1st educator to offer a course in psychology in the U.S.A.

  “Sanity is a madness put to good use.” — George Santayana (1863 – 1952) Spanish philosopher, poet & novelist

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” — Sir Thomas George Barnett Cocks (1907 – 1989) British clerk in the Parliament of the UK

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” — Joyce Meyer (1943 – ) American Christian author and speaker

“Freedom is not America’s gift to the world; it is Almighty God’s gift to every man and woman in this world.” — George W. Bush (1946 – ) American politician, businessman, & former US Air Force officer 43rd President of … Continue reading →

  “Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.” — Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian lawyer, spiritual & political leader, and nonviolent resistance advocate

“I predict that one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.” — Gilbert Gottfried (1955 – 2022) American stand-up comedian & actor May the best (Patriots) team (Patriots) win (Patriots)! Go Pats!

  “You must first be a believer if you would be an achiever.” — Unknown

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien (1892 – 1973) English writer, poet & scholar

  “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 – 2001) American writer & aviator  

  “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” — George Washington (1732-1799) US statesman; 1st US President (1789-97) General of the Revolutionary Army; surveyor, farmer

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) American Baptist minister & … Continue reading →

  “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” — Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) English naturalist, geologist, and biologist

  “Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.” — Amelia Earhart (1897 – 1937 disappeared) American aviation pioneer

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.” — Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American statesman; 16th U.S. President: 1861-65; assassinated following Civil War

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.” — Andre Maurois (1885 – 1967) French author A dear friend sent me the attached video. Lovely music and sweet sentiments about … Continue reading →

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910) 19th Century American author and humorist; pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens We can choose to be rabid in our righteousness… or … Continue reading →

“‘History repeats itself’ and ‘History never repeats itself’ are about equally true… We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.” — George Macaulary Trevelyan (1876 – 1962) English historian

  “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” — Ronald Reagan (1911 – 2004) American actor & California Governor 40th President … Continue reading →