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

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

— Burton Cummings

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

— Michael Caine

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

— Dalai Lama

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

— Nhat Hanh

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

— Francois Rabelais

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

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The more you know the less you talk.

— A. R. Rahman

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

— Young MC

[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

When I came out of the conservatory, the first thing I did was to go see Thelonious Monk.

— Cecil Taylor

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

— Nhat Hanh

The real destroyer of inner peace is fear and distrust. Fear develops frustration, frustration develops anger, anger develops violence.

— Dalai Lama

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

— John Climacus

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

— Russell Brand

“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

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk…

— John Conyers

“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

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so…

— Jaime King

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.…

— Chick Corea

I never really got around to discussing that specific topic which I think it crucially important to understand. If you were a…

— Brad Warner

I intended to portray the joy, anger, sorrow and pleasure of our lives through four seasons and through the life of a…

— Kim Ki-duk

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being…

— John Main

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

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

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

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

Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had…

— Pico Iyer