Quotes of Monkey - somelinesforyou

“ Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did. ”

- Lincoln Steffens

“ Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ”

- Malcolm De Chazal

“ Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. ”

- Wangari Maathai

“ Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. ”

- Henry James

“ I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. ”

- Prince of Wales Charles

“ Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey. ”

- Bill Gates

“ While Darwinian Man, though well-behaved. At best is only a monkey shaved! ”

- William Gilbert

“ I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. ”

- Jimi Hendrix

“ I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey… ”

- Igor Stravinsky

“ We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say… the red is positive and the black is negative. ”

- Nick Dipaolo

“ The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail. ”

- Jean Claude Duvalier

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

- Winston Churchill

“ Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare! ”

- Blair Houghton

“ If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about … five minutes. ”

- Anon.

“ There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. ”

- Desmond Morris

“ Chimpanzees are suffering horribly for our entertainment. ”

- Jane Goodall

“ I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a monkey when I get tickled - woo-hoo! ”

- Tara Reid

“ Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

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

- Steven Wright

“ We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. ”

- Robert Wilensky

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

- William Congreve

“ An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. ”

- William Winwood Reade

“ Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden? ”

- Alfred A. Montapert

“ We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ”

- Stephen Hawking

“ Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. ”

- Robert Wilensky

“ An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. ”

- Charles Darwin
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