Edward Grey Quotes

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

The older I get, the less I remember.

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

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

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.

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

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

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

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

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

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

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

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

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.