Librarian Retirement Quotes

#1. It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Billy Collins

#2. He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

Samuel Foote

#3. You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Adam Garcia

#4. Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

Malcolm Forbes

#5. A book is not complete until it's read

E.L. Doctorow

#6. Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

Rupert Sanders

#7. I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

Marilynne Robinson

#8. A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind ... he will need only six feet of earth.

Josephus Daniels

#9. There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system convulses. From the Seven Years' War in Europe to the Napoleonic Wars of the 19th century to the World Wars, every century has one.

George Friedman