Monk Quotes

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

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

The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he

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

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

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

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.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.

...'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.

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

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

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

In love longing I listen to the monk's bell. I will never forget you even for an interval short as those between the bell notes.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

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

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

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

Monk taught me more about music composition than anyone else on 52nd Street.

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

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.

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

Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

Thelonius Monk was not exactly 'the guy next door'.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

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

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

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.

The ephemeral nature of live performance is the part I love most - it's a monk's sand painting, carefully constructed, then wiped away in an instant.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

All hoods make not monks.

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

I am a simple Buddhist monk.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

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.

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

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

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

I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'

My head monk asked how it was walking. I said it hurt without shoes. And he said, 'It hurts on the foot that's down, but the one that's up feels really good - so focus on that one'.

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

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

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".