Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it. - Matthew Kelty
It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. - Karl Marx
The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them - Radhe Maa
Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers - Radhe Maa
O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") - W.B. Yeats