Monkeys Quotes - Page 2

• Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Angel, Humanity, Improvement

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• There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

  Brad Pitt

  Wisdom, Opinion, Popular Opinion

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• It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Life, College, Expression

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• Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

  Henry James

  Cat, Animal, Life Is

  The Madonna of the Future vol. 1 (1879)

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• Monkeys can't talk, stupid!

  Jeff Kinney

  Stupid

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• I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

  William Congreve

  Science, Reflection, Long

  Letter to John Dennis, 10 July 1695

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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Thinking, Way

  My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew "Quick Quotations" (1936)

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• Guns don't kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2014

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• A monkey could drive this train.

  Meg Whitman

  Train

  "EBay Bids on a New Path to Growth" by Verne G. Kopytoff, www.nytimes.com. February 06, 2011.

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• In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

  Joanna Lumley

  Bird, Tree, Kenya

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• If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

  Jules Henry

  Animal, Today, Firsts

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• There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

  Ian Hart

  Typewriters, Thanks, Internet

  2001 In the Sunday Herald, 30 Dec.

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• Very close cousins like humans and chimps have almost all their genes in common. Slightly less close cousins like humans and monkeys still have recognizably the same genes. You could carry on right on down to humans and bacteria, and you will find continuous compelling evidence for the hierarchical tree of cousinship.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cousin, Tree, Bacteria

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Even monkeys fall out of trees.

  J. F. Lawton

  Fall, Tree

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• Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

  Terry McMillan

  Looks, Mama, Said

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.177, Penguin

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• There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

  Terence McKenna

  Struggle, Angel, Historical

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• I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

  Dick Dale

  People, Giving, Lions

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• I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who you are. You can be in a restaurant and no one notices you or if they do they won't show it.

  Teddy Sheringham

  People, Giving, London

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• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Wise, Years, Evil

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• The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Anger, Quiet, Trouble

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.129

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• 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.

  Francois Rabelais

  Religion, Young, Rejected

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• MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Home, Animal, Tree

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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• What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Men, Creation

  Mark Twain (1940). “Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events”, Harper & Brothers

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