Books Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I think books are about people that are retired or at the end of their careers.

— Jim Harbaugh

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army…

— Gerald Griffin

“Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all…

— Paul Auster

Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

— M.I.A

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.

— Yasunari Kawabata

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were…

— B. C. Forbes

When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for having on…

— James A. Michener

“Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience”

— Ikechukwu Joseph

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you…

— Douglas Coupland

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

— John Larroquette