Monk Quotes

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

The more you know the less you talk.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

A habit does not a monk make.

Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.

I felt like poisoning a monk.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma

A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.

The more you know, the less you carry

There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

I’m a basketball player, not a monk.

...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with Thelonious Monk. It happened with anybody who is really original.

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.

It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

All hoods make not monks.

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

I think many monks hesitate to change things.

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect you, then that is not a very meritorious motivation.

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.