These wise and witty quotes will make you smile. Doctors say that short-term memory is the first to go... but do they say anything about a sense of humour? Hope not…

These witty quotes are by and for people over 50.

“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.’” — Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

“I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: ‘No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.’” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” — Mark Twain

“Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.” — Phyllis Diller

“By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.” — Billy Crystal

“Don’t worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you.” — Winston Churchill

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” — Herbert Henry Asquith