Old Age Comes at a Bad Time Wit and Wisdom for the Young at Heart

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

97 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Gerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

With a title like this I can't imagine why I decided to read this book at my age! But it is an enjoyable ramble through people's views on getting old and what it does to one.

Some quotes are more deep seated than others and on the light-hearted front Steve Race's "When you are about thirty-five years old, something terrible always happens to music" stands out in the memory.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a bunch of quotes from random people and it doesn't take long to finish it.

[Judy Lindow · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just reread this book and am embarrassed by how bad my writing is for my original review. I love some of these quotes - I think more than I did the first read. I'll keep the little book. It seems to get better as I get older--And, "Getting old is not for sissies" means something.