Monkey Quotes

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

Mean, Off, Left

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

Hold, Room, Organ

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, After

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix

Pet, Chan, Charlie

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Art, Science, Democracy

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?
Steven Wright

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
Angie Stone

Good, Men, Reality

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

Long, Confess, Freely

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

Men, Mirror, Looks

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Doug Coupland

Life, Time, Free

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
Paris Hilton

Home, Sleep, Kiss

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Robert Hughes

Soul, Determined, Accomplish

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
Alicia Silverstone

Boyfriend, Along, Princess

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

Him, Quote, Surest

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 - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
Lewis Black

Dad, Father, Two

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Robert M. Hutchins

Important, Serious, College

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
Rachel Weisz

Best, Afraid, Hurting

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.
Jerry Lewis

Few, Hours, Fulfilling

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of the blue - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.
Jerry Lewis

Sexy, America, Nation

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

Old, Zoo, Anonymous

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.
Geoffrey Rush

Wonderful, Worked, Films

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
Russell Banks

Write, Desire, Reading

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.
Margot Kidder

God, Makes, Leave

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
Marlon Wayans

Funny, Strong, Lion

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Theodore Sturgeon

Science, Lost, Stories

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
Franz Grillparzer

Life, Work, Poetry

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.
Penelope Cruz

Perfect, State, Caribbean

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.
Zach Galifianakis

Freedom, Free, Sometimes

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.
Daniel Kahneman

Good, Political, Possible

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
Nancy Sinatra

Girl, Care, Him

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