Old age comes at a bad time - Eliakim Katz

Ageing is about losing youth and finding a varicose vein; fighting your children and making peace with your parents. It is about gaining wisdom and mislaying your reading glasses. Throughout time people have feared, laughed at, cried about, defied, and accepted ageing?and they have written about it in the meantime. This delightful collection gathers together the most memorable quotations about growing old,withcontributors includingWilliam Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, and Evelyn Waugh as well asMargaret Thatcher, Joan Rivers, and Jerry Seinfeld.