Quotes with monkey

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  • Henry David Thoreau 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
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Caroll Spinney When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • William Winwood Reade Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • William S. Gilbert Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Aneurin Bevan I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Mark Twain I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Buzz Osborne One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Robert Benchley The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach We put a monkey up in space / and I know exactly how he felt / looking at a lattice work of stars / missing his brothers back home too much for a postcard
    Perfecting Loneliness (2002) Disgrace
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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