Monk Quotes

The cowl does not make the monk

— Proverb

I felt like poisoning a monk.

— Umberto Eco

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

— Henry VIII of England

Malik Monk is special. Special.

— John Calipari

“I poked a monk.”

— Danny Wallace

“But you're a monk!”

— Van Helsing

All hoods make not monks.

— William Shakespeare

A habit does not a monk make.

— Francois Rabelais

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

— Michael Caine

If I had not been a monk, I would have become an engineer.

— Dalai Lama

I certainly haven't lived the life of a Buddhist monk.

— Burton Cummings

“I thought I was wed to a king- now I find I am wed to a monk.”

— Eleanor of Aquitaine

“Fancy pants, the monk can dance!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I loved working on 'Murphy Brown,' and I loved working on 'Monk.'

— Nell Scovell

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

— Nhat Hanh

I am simply just one monk. That's all.

— Dalai Lama

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Nhat Hanh

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

— Edward Gibbon

Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in…

— Nhat Hanh

[Winning the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition]definitely opened some doors.

— Jon Gordon

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

— James Roday

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant…

— Jenova Chen

“No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he…

— Thomas Merton

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect…

— Dalai Lama

The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a…

— Thomas Merton

If you become a monk because it's an easy life, because you're going to be fed, and sheltered and people will respect…

— Tenzin Palmo

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows…

— Herman Melville

“ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and…

— Lew Welch

“If ever a monk got to heaven by his monkery, it was I." "Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions,…

— Martin Luther

These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will…

— Gautama Buddha

“I’m like a praying mantis, except not so devout. And I make love like a monk in meditation, which can often be…

— Jarod Kintz

Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he…

— Gautama Buddha

…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them…

— Joseph Campbell

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— Hermann Hesse

I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in…

— Sulak Sivaraksa

A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is…

— Silouan the Athonite

Traditionally, women didn't have much a role in Buddhism. The books were all written by monks, for other monks. So the general…

— Tenzin Palmo

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's…

— Roy Haynes

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your…

— Paulo Coelho