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Monk Quotes

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All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
Henry VIII of England

'Despair has taken hold. Clergymen, clergymen, clergymen!'
Authors on Monk Quotes: Dalai Lama Gautama Buddha Edward Gibbon Tenzin Palmo Nhat Hanh John Green Francois Rabelais Saint John Chrysostom Marvin Barnes Austin O'Malley A. R. Rahman Jon Gordon James McAvoy Robert M. Sapolsky Cesare Pavese George Herbert Eric Clapton Moby Walter Map Petra Haden Jose Saramago Steve Lacy Chris Avellone Henry VIII of England Gregory Maguire Terry Pratchett Evagrius Ponticus Mors Kochanski Kathleen Norris Walter Scott Philip K. Dick Juliana Hatfield Ronnie Lott
2.
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai Lama

3.
The more you know the less you talk.
A. R. Rahman

4.
A genius is the one most like himself.
Thelonious Monk

5.
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
Benedict of Nursia

6.
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.
Philippe Starck

7.
A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais

8.
Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen monk, author and peace activist.
Nhat Hanh

9.
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
Marcel Duchamp

10.
I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.
Greta Garbo

11.
For me, Charles Xavier is a monk. He's like a selfless, egoless almost sexless force for the betterment of humanity and mortality.
James McAvoy

12.
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
Philip K. Dick

13.
Im a Tibetan monk, not a vegetarian.
Dalai Lama

14.
I felt like poisoning a monk.
Umberto Eco

15.
I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
Antony Gormley

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

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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.
Gautama Buddha

18.
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
George Payne Rainsford James

19.
A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma
Tsem Tulku

20.
A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.
John Lydgate

21.
The more you know, the less you carry
Mors Kochanski

22.
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.
Gautama Buddha

23.
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
Saint John Chrysostom

24.
I’m a basketball player, not a monk.
Marvin Barnes

25.
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.
Rich Mullins

26.
...'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.
Terry Pratchett

27.
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
Martin Luther

28.
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Edward Gibbon

29.
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman

30.
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.
Walter Map

31.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Gautama Buddha

32.
Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
Chris Avellone

33.
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
Chris d'Lacey

34.
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.
Steve Lacy

35.
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
Geoffrey Chaucer

36.
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
John Green

37.
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.
Gautama Buddha

38.
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.
Mata Amritanandamayi

39.
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.
Robert M. Sapolsky

40.
I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
Moby

41.
All hoods make not monks.
William Shakespeare

42.
I am a simple Buddhist monk.
Dalai Lama

43.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese

44.
At Length the Fox turnes Monk.
George Herbert

45.
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.
Eric Clapton

46.
I think many monks hesitate to change things.
Tenzin Palmo

47.
I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.
Nhat Hanh

48.
The Monk competition did open some doors. And I was thankful for that.
Jon Gordon

49.
If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.
Gregory Maguire

50.
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.
Tenzin Palmo