“The Devil was sick - the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he”
Francois Rabelais
“The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be - But when he got well, a wolf once more was he”
Walter Bower
“There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.”
Buddha
“A monk asked Master Haryo, 'What is the way?' Haryo said, 'An open-eyed man falling into the well”
Zen Koan
“Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“The cowl does not make the monk”
Proverb
“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
Umberto Eco
