Ciszterci Quotes & Sayings

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard De Bury

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian ... He's bound to lose perspective. — Robert Musil

It does no good to bark at the television,
I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped. — Mary Oliver

Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn't tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one. — Lauren Beukes

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan. — Asne Seierstad

I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing. — Per Petterson