Not everyone likes to celebrate birthday. To some people, birthday is a reminder of getting old and it means regular health check ups, more responsibilities and more wrinkles. Famous people have also something to say about this yearly celebration that everyone celebrates.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
~Maurice Chevalier

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
~George Burns

If I'd known I was going to live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.
~Ubie Blake

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~Lucille Ball

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
~Bob Hope

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. ~ Robert Orben

In a dream you are never eighty. ~ Anne Sexton

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990

People might crave for returning to youth, here is a word of wisdom from Jonathan Swift
"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

So, keeping this line in mind, enjoy your birthday. Always.

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