Quotes with monkeys

  • 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.

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  • Lincoln Steffens 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.
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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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  • Alfred A. Montapert 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
    American writer
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  • Henry James Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Vance Havner Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Arthur Eddington If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Carl Sagan In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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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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  • Carolyn Murphy 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
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stephen Hawking 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.
    Der Spiegel (17 oktober 1988).
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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