Old Age Comes at a Bad Time

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, with contributors including William Shakespeare, D. H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde, and Evelyn Waugh as well as Margaret Thatcher, Joan Rivers, and Jerry Seinfeld.