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Monk Quotes

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I want you to recognize that I'm a proud monkey...

"The Blacker The Berry". Song by Kendrick Lamar, Jefferey Campbell, Zale Epstein, Alexander Izquierdo, Brent Kolatalo, Stephen Kozmeniuk, Ken Lewis and Matthew Samuels, February 9, 2015.

Then are they truly monks when they live by the labor of their hands.

Benedict Of Nursia (2015). “St. Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries”, p.48, Benedict Of Nursia

Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

Voltaire (2006). “Candide: Or Optimism”, p.69, Yale University Press

Year by year, the monkey's mask reveals the monkey

c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.3 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

You monkeys only think you're running things.

"'Ayahuasca is changing global environmental consciousness'". Interview with David Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2016.