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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 John Green Edward Gibbon Tenzin Palmo Nhat Hanh Geoffrey Chaucer William Shakespeare Philippe Starck Russell Brand Burton Cummings John Lennon Tsem Tulku Benedict of Nursia Mata Amritanandamayi Glenn Ligon Umberto Eco Pico Iyer Martin Luther Harsha Bhogle Marcel Duchamp Antony Gormley John Lydgate Rich Mullins Douglas Adams Hugh Jackman George Payne Rainsford James Saint John Chrysostom Marvin Barnes Francois Rabelais Austin O'Malley A. R. Rahman Jon Gordon
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.
A habit does not a monk make.
Francois Rabelais

7.
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

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

17.
A monk is holy and great until he starts teaching you the real Dharma
Tsem Tulku

18.
A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.
John Lydgate

19.
A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
Evagrius Ponticus

20.
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

21.
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
Saint John Chrysostom

22.
The more you know, the less you carry
Mors Kochanski

23.
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

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

25.
If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.
Martin Luther

26.
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
Edward Gibbon

27.
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman

28.
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

29.
...'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

30.
He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
John Green

31.
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

32.
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.
Mata Amritanandamayi

33.
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
Gautama Buddha

34.
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

35.
Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
Chris Avellone

36.
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
Chris d'Lacey

37.
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

38.
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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.
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
Harsha Bhogle

43.
[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy . . .
Edward Gibbon

44.
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
John Lennon

45.
When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.
Russell Brand

46.
If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.
Dalai Lama

47.
High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.
Douglas Adams

48.
I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.
Petra Haden

49.
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
Austin O'Malley

50.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese