Monkeys Quotes

420 quotes by 348 authors

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it. — David Attenborough
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
Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? — Stephen Baldwin
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
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of actually visiting the Playboy Mansion. I saw the peacocks, fed grapes to the monkeys, and even… — Diablo Cody
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to… — Charles Darwin
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
They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. — Robin Ince
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at… — Lincoln Steffens
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

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