Norman Wisdom Quotes

I am in the prime of my senility.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

I am too old to think.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

You know you're getting older when - well, first off, when you read almost any story that begins 'You know you're getting older when.' But you also know it when you not only never heard of the musical guest on a given 'Saturday Night Live' but never heard of the host, either.

When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

When the age is in, the wit is out

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.