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Quotes About Monkeys

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
~ Carolyn Murphy
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 braved the fabled Grotto. After seeing the estate, I understood why anyone would be reluctant to leave.
~ Diablo Cody
Es fama entre los etíopes que los monos deliberadamente no hablan para que no los obliguen a trabajar
~ Jorge Luís Borges
If you were to go to the National Museum in Addis Ababa, you would walk into a huge room filled with literally tens of tons of fossils, and most of them would be elephants and rhinos and hippopotamus and monkeys and giraffes and antelopes and so on. Hominids are very rare in the landscape, and it's very rare to find them.
~ Donald Johanson
They wonder what is wrong with our country, but isn't it fairly obvious that if children are being treated like animals instead of rational beings, as adults they'll respond like monkeys?
~ Wen Spencer
and he was as ready for mischief as a wilderness of monkeys.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Ford! he said, there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.
~ Douglas Adams
Madagascar had been a monkey-free refuge for the lemurs off the coast of mainland Africa, and now Nosy Mangabé had to be a monkey-free refuge off the coast of mainland Madagascar. The refuges were getting smaller and smaller, and the monkeys were already here on this one, sitting making notes about it. "The difference," said Mark, "is that the first monkey-free refuge was set up by chance. The second was actually set up by the monkeys.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur alzò gli occhi. "Ford!" disse "qui fuori c'è un'incredibile moltitudine di scimmie che vogliono parlarci di una sceneggiatura dell'Amleto che avrebbero appena finito di scrivere!
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur looked up. 'Ford,' he said, 'there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.
~ Douglas Adams
Ford,' he said, 'there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.
~ Douglas Adams
there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.
~ Douglas Adams
It will not be a surprise to you to learn I'm more interested in the future of the Arctic Circle than the future of the Arctic Monkeys.
~ Gordon Brown
It's all about the French Paradox, that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
~ Julie Powell
I only became aware that my eyes had filled with tears when I noticed some commotion in the treetops, far off outside the perimeter wall. I blinked and looked again. There were monkeys out there fighting, screaming and pelting one another with rotten fruit.
~ Kage Baker
It has been suggested that an army of monkeys might be trained to pound typewriters at random in the hope that ultimately great works of literature would be produced. Using a coin for the same purpose may save feeding and training expenses and free the monkeys for other monkey business.
~ William Feller
Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish flavor. They describe how a group of Israelites were transformed into rats, how unbelievers are turned into monkeys and pigs, and how Abraham's father was transformed into an animal and hurled into the raging fires of hell.
~ David Livingstone Smith
People might say, What's so great about the Arctic Monkeys? I've never even seen them. Well, you've never seen God either. You're gonna tell me he's not awesome?
~ Christian Finnegan
Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.
~ H. A. Rey
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
~ Billy Sunday
North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from.
~ Lewis Black
Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
~ Jeff Kinney, Rodrick Rules
Welcome back, my cheeky wee monkeys.
~ Craig Ferguson
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
~ William Henry Hudson