“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”

“A monk's first concern, night and day, should be not to hurt or trouble his brother monks.”

“I felt like poisoning a monk.”

“Monk enters the studio and starts playing, the rest of the musicians join him. After few minutes of play the technician from his room shouts and stops the band. ]
Monk: "Why did we stop?"
Technician: "I thought you were rehearsing."
Monk: "Aren't we always?"”

“My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk”

“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”

“The soldier is like the monk, for whom order is called obedience.”

“A monk is one who is conditioned by virtues as others are by pleasures.”

“A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.”

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