Author Archives: Cathy Burnham Martin

  “Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” — Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) English-American film director & producer

We humans have so much to learn. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” — Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

I can think of no better person to toast a remembrance rum punch to than the King of Island Escapism… Jimmy Buffett. “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” — Jimmy Buffett (1946 – 2023) American musician, singer, … Continue reading →

“When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled.”  — African proverb

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910) (pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 19th Century American author and humorist

  “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Chinese philosopher

  “Patience is also a form of action.”  — Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) French sculptor

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.” — Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894) American physician, poet & polymath “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” (1858)

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, (1833 – 1899) American lawyer, Civil War veteran, orator, and abolitionist

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author and humorist; pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  “Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) Founding Father of the United States, inventor, publisher, political philosopher

  “It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.” — Johann Wolfgang … Continue reading →

  “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” — Will Durant (1885 – 1981) American historian & philosopher

  “The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.” — Norman Vincent Peal (1898 – 1993) American clergyman & author (in his … Continue reading →