Quotes About The Monkey's Paw

#1. The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Sarah Monette

#2. I saw that "success," "failure," "poverty", "riches," were price tags, money values of the market place which had mesmerized and sidetracked me for years.

Anzia Yezierska

#3. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. Disdain Returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.

Various

#4. The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

#5. This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.

John L. Monk

#6. There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.

Michael Maloney

#7. Neil Sullivan has stopped absolutely everything have thrown at him ... Wimbledon 1, Manchester United 1.

Mike Ingham

#8. Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

Donald Trump

#9. I have a deep, deep love for sneakers.

Kerry Washington

#10. I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

Kristen Schaal

#11. It's easy to tune out your critics, but difficult to turn off your conscience.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Neil Gaiman

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

Douglas Coupland