Victoria Coren Mitchell Quotes

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

You get to a point in your life where you go, 'I don't remember what I did.'

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.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

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?

There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.

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

I'm grateful for all the experiences, even the negative ones.

I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

I'm quite forgetful.

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.