Monday, October 20, 2008

An especially topical bon mot

"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."

Samuel Ullman (1840-1924)


There you are then. I told you I was still 25.

The full text of Ullman's prose poem on Youth is here. Worth a look. It was, apparently, a great favourite of Douglas MacArthur's, and frequently quoted by him.

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