#monk

Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting. ↗

— Clifford Longley

#cell #language #monk

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. ↗

— Jena Malone

#acceptable #buddha #friendship #jesus #leaders

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#art #cage #circus #democracy #monkey

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

— Moby

#like #monk #taste

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#head #i #laughable #like #males

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#easily #failed #first #had #i

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#bourgeois #monks #state

A habit does not a monk make. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#habit #make #monk

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#became #become #general #i #instead

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#monkey #science #truth #zoo #experience