When the former president of the USA, John Quincy Adams, was in his eightieth year and walking slowly along a Boston street he met a friend. "How is John Quincy Adams today?" his friend asked. He replied, "Thank you, John Quincy Adams is well, sir, quite well, I thank you. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon the foundations. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out, its walls are shattered, and it trembles with every wind. The old tenement is becoming uninhabitable, and I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon; but he himself is quite well, sir, quite well."
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 17:10:07 +0000
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