Monkeys Quotes

420 quotes by 342 authors

Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a… — Unknown Author
I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's… — Unknown Author
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
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. — Henry Walter Bates
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming… — John Chancellor
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame
It is unethical not to know. It is unethical not to think. It is unethical not to love. It is unethical not to live an… — Yasuhiko Kimura
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. — Ambrose Bierce
[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's,… — Colin Blakemore
The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys — Albert Sabin
There should be a detective show called "Johnny Monkey," because every week you could have a guy say "I ain't gonna get caught by no… — Jack Handey
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when… — Swami Vivekananda
I think the monkeys at the zoo should have to wear sunglasses so they can't hypnotize you. — Jack Handey
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
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
The fact that there are bigger injustices and wrongs doesn't make it right to sacrifice an innocent monkey. It doesn't alter the case at all. — Brigid Brophy
A woman has to look good, but a manâ€”a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough. — Meir Shalev
A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a… — Keith Olbermann
People love that monkey torture. — Thomas Lennon
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. — Andrew Keen

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