Monks Quotes
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Cynicism leads to despair, while fixating on the efforts that seemed to work in the past makes an idol out of spiritual states.
— Monks Of New Skete
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No monkery in Islam. — Idries Shah
The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
— John Monks
All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!.
— Henry VIII Of England
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
— Satish Kumar
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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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[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.
— Edward Gibbon
I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
— Hans Ulrich Obrist
Indeed. But I was not thinking of his immortal soul, Matilda. I was thinking that history is chronicled by monks.
— Sharon Kay Penman
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
— Cesare Pavese
Soldiers fear the frontier post, monks fear the Surangama Dharani!
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.
— Matthew Kelty
What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.
— John Green
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.
— George Payne Rainsford James
If monks and nuns do not cherish their time of practice, they will have nothing to offer the world.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The very sort of smile that makes decent folk want to slap Buddhist monks in the face,
— Fredrik Backman
somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far
— Eliza Knight
The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting
— John Monks
If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by allboth old and young. — Francois Rabelais
No. It is impossible to maintain a smile in my brother's presence. Monks haven't the sort of patience required.
— Libba Bray
Children, we must cultivate reverence towards all great masters, monks and gurus.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
They're Hive Monks,' said Nova.
— Philip Reeve
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
— Saint John Chrysostom
I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.
— John Monks
All hoods make not monks.
— William Shakespeare
You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.
— Chris D'Lacey
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Wouldn't it be great if health-care plans included a list of Buddhist monks among the network providers?
— Regina Brett
Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.
— James A. Michener
Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.
— Benedict Of Nursia
Well, there are the letter I deliver to the monks, and other things, too: tea and dishwashing soap, paraffin candles, tins of powered Ovaltine ...
— Christine Brodien-Jones
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
— Paul Theroux
Dogs make us believe we can actually be as they see us.
— Monks Of New Skete
In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.
— Ernst Toller
The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
— Alexander Herzen
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
— Walter Scott
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
— Satish Kumar
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
— Robert A. Heinlein
He felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies,
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps.
— Irina Serban
Of the monastic institutions on which it depended. Since celibate monks tended to
— Stephen Batchelor
CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW
— Charles Dickens
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
— Santoka Taneda
Poets and monks ... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.
— Kathleen Norris
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
— Cameron Diaz
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.
— Saint John Chrysostom
There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk's patience, a Warrior's courage, a Child's imagination.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality
— Monks Of New Skete
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.
— Bobby Robson
Queers make the best monks.
— Victor J. Banis
All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
— Henry VIII Of England
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[The monks'] minds were inaccessible to reason or mercy ...
— Edward Gibbon
Maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks ...
— John Geddes
