If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

Bring down the curtain, the farce is over

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

I never sleep comfortably except when I am at sermon or when I pray to God.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.