Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

The line plays on the cliché “over the hill” (past one’s prime) by extending it into a physical metaphor: once you crest a hill, gravity makes you accelerate. As attributed to Schulz, it fits the wry, gently consoling humor associated with Peanuts—acknowledging aging while reframing it as momentum rather than decline. The joke also carries an ambivalent edge: “picking up speed” can suggest both renewed energy and the unnerving sense that time moves faster as one grows older. Its appeal lies in turning a negative idiom into a comic, slightly philosophical reminder to meet aging with perspective.