Author Archives: Cathy Burnham Martin

  “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 →

” If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.” — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Scottish novelist

  “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”  — Mae West (1893 – 1980) American actress

  “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” Mark Twain (1835-1910) 19th Century American author and humorist; pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Sometimes we can make ourselves happy. Sometimes we share happiness with others. Most times, happiness is a decision. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” — Dolly Parton (1946 – … Continue reading →

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.”  — Socrates (? – 399 BC) Greek philosopher