Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

The line flips conventional moral advice. Instead of urging discipline to resist temptation, it jokes that aging will do the work: as one grows older, the temptations associated with youth—sexual opportunity, reckless adventure, social attention—tend to diminish or become less compelling. The humor depends on a wry, slightly cynical view of virtue: what looks like moral improvement may simply be reduced appetite or access. Beneath the punchline is a reflection on time’s power to change identity and desire, suggesting that “avoiding temptation” can be less a triumph of will than a byproduct of life’s shifting circumstances.