Monkeys Quotes

• When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

  Alvah Bessie

  Wrenches

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• A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

  Eoin Colfer

  Optimistic, Moon, Bananas

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• I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

  Carl Sagan

  Zoos, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.55, Penguin

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• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Atheist, Men, Mirrors

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• People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

  Lorne Michaels

  Zoos, People, Laughing

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• I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

  Prince Charles

  Learning, Parent, Way

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

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• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  James Goldsmith

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• Even monkeys fall from trees.

  Chris Bradford

  Fall, Tree, Korean

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• Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

  Stephen Baldwin

  Evolution, Stills, Ifs

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• No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

  James S.A. Corey

  Burritos, Frozen

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

  Duncan Trussell

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• Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mean, Humor

  "The G20 Needs a Permanent Home" by Craig and Marc Kielburger, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

  Joe Rogan

  Life, Talking, Flying

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• Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

  Elton John

  Love, Passion, Addiction

  Song: Sleeping With The Past, Album: Sleeping With The Past, 1989

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• Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Soul, Peanuts, Sells

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Gentle Murderer”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hypocrisy, Faces, Pretty Face

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• People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Too Much, Parrots

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.124, Penguin

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• You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

  Christine O'Donnell

  Evolution, Tea Party, Myth

  "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, (ABC), October 15, 1998.

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• The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

  T. H. White

  Destiny, Men, Nuts

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Typewriters, Years

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press

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• You never monkey with the truth.

  Ben Bradlee

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

  Loren Eiseley

  Men, Mindfulness, Kind

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• An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jumping, Tree, Jungle

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