Monkey Quotes

317 quotes by 264 authors

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. — Kevin Bacon
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music… — P T Barnum
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. — Robert Benchley
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people -… — Lewis Black
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. — George Carlin
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. — Malcolm De Chazal
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. — Winston Churchill
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey… — Louis Agassiz
It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back! — Stefan Cherneski
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
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. — Joseph Stilwell
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother. — Evan Esar
I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them. — Thomas A. Edison
I happen to be a kind of monkey. I have a monkeylike curiosity that makes me want to feel, smell, and taste things which arouse… — Willis R. Whitney
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey. — Lyle Alzado
Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And… — Les Miles
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine.… — Victor Hugo
The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do… — Eldridge Cleaver
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him. — Aberjhani

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