Monkeys Quotes

• We've just barely stopped being monkeys.

  Duncan Trussell

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• People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Too Much, Parrots

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.124, Penguin

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• 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

  Zoos, People, Laughing

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• 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

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.

  Alvah Bessie

  Wrenches

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

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Atheist, Men, Mirrors

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

  Prince Charles

  Learning, Parent, Way

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

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• No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

  James S.A. Corey

  Burritos, Frozen

  James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

  Stephen Baldwin

  Evolution, Stills, Ifs

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• Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Jumping, Tree, Jungle

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

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Drunk, Alcohol

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• If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

  Joe Rogan

  Life, Talking, Flying

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• Even monkeys fall from trees.

  Chris Bradford

  Fall, Tree, Korean

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• Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Soul, Peanuts, Sells

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Gentle Murderer”, p.196, Open Road Media

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• An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

  Francois Rabelais

  Hypocrisy, Faces, Pretty Face

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• You never monkey with the truth.

  Ben Bradlee

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Home, Animal, Tree

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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• Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Typewriters, Years

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.26, Ignatius Press

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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Thinking, Way

  My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew "Quick Quotations" (1936)

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• Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mean, Humor

  "The G20 Needs a Permanent Home" by Craig and Marc Kielburger, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2010.

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• If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  James Goldsmith

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• 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

  Men, Mindfulness, Kind

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Anger, Quiet, Trouble

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.129

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• 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

  Zoos, Doe, Knows

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