Why Is the Rook so Short?

Robert Frost said it well.

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back

Marcus Aurelius

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend

Albert Camus

In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal

Damon Albarn (Gorillaz)

THIS DAY IN HISTORY   1969

Monty Python's Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY   1931

Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first heavier than air nonstop flight over the Pacific. Their flight, begun October 3, lasted 41 hours, 31 minutes and covered 5,000 miles. They piloted their Bellanca CH-200 monoplane from Samushiro, 300 miles north of Tokyo, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington.

This is only 4 years after Lindberg flew across the Atlantic.Their flight is quite a bit farther,and more difficult. I never heard of them.I guess no one was hyping it like the Atlantic flight.

"Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most love is lost"

Khalil Gibran

“Do not go where the path may lead, instead go where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way

Henry David Thoreau

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth

Oscar Wilde

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater 

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. Alexander Hamilton

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

The great object is that every man be armed. Patrick Henry

sorry I was so busy pasting that stuff I did not see your post.