Norm Crosby Quotes

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

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed, because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

I don't think that I'm old.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

I am in the prime of my senility.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.

The good old times—all times when old are good.

Getting a grey beard's not cool.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.