monk quotes

Inveni fateor in rege monachum, claustrum in curia, in palatio monasterii disciplinam. I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.

-St Aelred of Riveaulx   d.1167
?c.1160  Lament for David I, King of Scotland. Quoted in  John Fordoun Chronicle of Scotland (c.1384), bk.5, ch.43.

Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.

-Walter Map
c.1181  On hearing of an unsuccessful attempt by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to revive a dead boy by throwing himself on the body and praying. De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.5.

I have heard cynics who say he's a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes.

- (Keith) Rupert Murdoch
  On the Dalai Lama. In the Daily  Telegraph,7 Sep.