Monkeys Quotes - Page 5

• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

  John McCain

  Space, Iran, Firsts

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• People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  Armand Hammer

  Jobs, Get Well, Hard Work

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. The average man ought to be allowed a quotation of no less than three sentences, one to make his statement and two to explain what he meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson was about the only one who could stand having his utterances broken up into sentence quotations, and every once in a while even he doesn’t sound so sensible in short snatches.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Average, Two

  Robert Benchley (1951). “My ten years in a quandary and how they grew”

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• We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

  Terence McKenna

  May, Consciousness

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• Sixty eight percent of Republicans don't believe in evolution. On the other hand, only five percent of monkeys believe in Republicans.

  Stephen Colbert

  Believe, Eight, Hands

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• We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

  Charles Lamb

  Sight, Shy, Evolution

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• If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Education, Numbers, Typewriters

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile”, p.1504, Random House

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• I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Tired

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• Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.331, Anchor

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• I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!

  Randy Savage

  Sweet, Sky, Space

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

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• An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Fists, Ants

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• It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

  Rebecca West

  Errors, Literature, Curriculum

  "Rebecca West, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Marina Warner, The Paris Review, No. 79, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1981.

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• A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

  Aberjhani

  Men, Brain, Sitting

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.35, Lulu.com

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• I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Feet

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• For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs-as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Sacrifice, Order

  The Descent of Man ch. 21 (1871)

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• We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

  Tom Waits

  Gun

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• Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

  Buster Keaton

  Silence, Silence Is, Chatter

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

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• I've never said flange to a monkey!

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Said

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• Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

  Lin Yutang

  Biblical, Views, Holding On

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.

  David James

  Sex, Upset, Drs

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• I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Flying, Sound

  Interview with David Gralnik, collider.com. August 25, 2009.

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• Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

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• Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Stupidity, Skins

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• I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

  John Wilmot

  Dog, Animal, Proud

  John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.23, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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