1.
All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
Henry VIII of England
'Despair has taken hold. Clergymen, clergymen, clergymen!'
2.
I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai Lama
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
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
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
16.
A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.
Evagrius Ponticus
17.
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
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
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
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
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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
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