"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."

~Henry Louis Mencken

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."

~Thomas Jefferson

Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth."

Robert Frost:

"The best way out is always through."

in hot pursuit of the truth

Clarence Darrow:

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails."

~John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen,
both when we wake and when we sleep."

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

~George Elliot

fine this

everywhere a sign

"I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."

Og Mandino

"Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships."

~Charles Simic

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

~Benjamin Franklin

check yourself

"Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove,
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks."

~John Donne

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."

~Oscar Wilde

everything she touched

incorrigible blooming

"Writers may be disreputable,
incorrigible, early to decay or late
to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

~John Updike

B is for

The Bay of Malfeasants

...just brainstorming up a good title for this great read.




Save yourself...
it's not too late!

penne for your thoughts

an innocent Proverb

“A guilty conscience needs no accuser”

"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.”
~Martin Luther King

not dirty denim dozen

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
~John Steinbeck

"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free. "
~Doug Horton

Got your panties in a bunch ?

x's and o's

"To keep your balance you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein

a dirty little trick to play

Hey, don't talk about this picture like that.

dig yourself deeper

"Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life."

~Napoleon Hill

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance."

~Edward J. Mohn

~ a sweet Proverb

"When you shoot an arrow of truth,
dip it's point in honey."

remember this:

"If you tell the truth,
you don't have to
remember anything."

~Mark Twain

bay view

ego lineup

"Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets."

~Nathaniel Bronner Jr.

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."


~Albert Einstein

I'll take the

wit

"Without music life would be a mistake."

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”

~Mark Twain

raven rebellious

"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong."

~Wilson Mizner

"Malice drinks
one-half of its own poison."

~Seneca

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

~Albert Einstein

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

~Author Unknown

"If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary."

Mark Twain

I've got the hard evidence

Winnie the Pooh

“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

~Samuel Johnson:

"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

~Mohandas K. Gandhi

a Proverb

"Sell not your liberty to gratify your luxury."

another pretty place

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Little~minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve."

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere"
~Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"What lies lurk in kisses."
~Heinrich Heine

"A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good."


~William Somerset Maugham

"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his."

~George Dennison Prentice