Monkey Man Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature is like the mute animals. Their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey.

Maimonides

#3. My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.

French Montana

#4. I find it easier to claim that I am friends with a monkey rather than with a man.

Shahla Khan

#5. That man is such a damn turd monkey."
"Grandma!" I said.
"Oh, Zoeybird, did I call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?"
"Yes, Grandma, you did."
She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.

Kristin Cast

#6. The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into ...
A monkey?
I think not.

Garth Stein

#7. In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step - usually the pogo - and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

W.S. Gilbert

#10. A woman has to look good, but a man - a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

Meir Shalev

#11. I have a swizzle stick shaped like a little monkey," announced Rose. "Let's help the dead man with his problem.

Seanan McGuire

#12. It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Mario Puzo

#13. Whilst Man, however well-behaved,
At best is but a monkey shaved!

Charles Darwin

#14. And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained

H.G.Wells

#15. See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man! and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all progress towards the sublime, the great and the enduring in man fell away and became a monkey's trick!

Hermann Hesse

#16. Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. All of my early images were really visual experiments to me. They were attempts to answer unasked questions like, what happens if you put images of six men and six women together, or if we combined a monkey's image with a human, would the result approximate an image of early man?

Nancy Burson

#18. Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

Craig Clevenger

#19. If a monkey has become a man - what may not a man become?

Tom Wolfe

#20. Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his origin, he ought not to stop at Rurik and disown the first founder of his family
the monkey.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. God, she was two seconds from jumping on his back like a monkey and strangling him.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Mark Twain

#23. The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.

Louis Agassiz

#24. Lord Ram gave Hanuman a quizzical look and said, "What are you, a monkey or a man?" Hanuman bowed his head reverently, folded his hands and said, "When I do not know who I am, I serve You and when I do know who I am, You and I are One.

Tulsidas

#25. 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

#26. In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.

Mark Twain

#27. But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?

Charles Darwin

#28. One thing that man HAS learned from history, is how to kill (animals) more efficiently.

Diane Van Der Westhuizen

#29. What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Mark Twain

#30. Some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!" He

Umberto Eco

#31. I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Mark Twain

#32. People are like, 'Oh, you can't take humans out of the loop, I'm a human and I'm an awesome driver.' And I'm like, no, man, you're not an awesome driver. You're a monkey, and monkeys suck at making decisions.

Tim Cannon

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

Robert Benchley

#34. Practically the first action of the Neanderthal - on the happy day he evolved out of the monkey egg - was to draw a picture on a cave wall of a man with an enormous willy. Or, indeed, perhaps it was the first action of a woman. After all, we're more interested in (a) cocks and (b) decorating.

Caitlin Moran

#35. You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.

M.F. Moonzajer

#36. A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Aberjhani

#37. Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#38. If the directions say to do it, we do it," said Maggie. "That's what everyone says. If you don't listen to the Monkey, he doesn't meet with you."
"Let's hope the directions don't tell us to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die," I muttered, and pulled out onto the street.

Mira Grant