Quotes About Three Wise Monkeys

#1. My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.

Mackenzie Phillips

#2. I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

Mackenzie Phillips

#3. (Thirty-nine steps)' was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran - '(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them - high tide 10.17 p.m.)'. I could make nothing of that.

John Buchan

#4. I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

Scott Rolen

#5. Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Jim Morrison

#6. Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks

#7. The house, the stars, the desert
what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#8. Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Ernest Renan

#9. Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Zoe Akins

#10. The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

John Sherman Cooper

#11. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Don't climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven't truly earned is a great way to get stuck in the land of Learning for decades, even an entire lifetime. Kick those ladders over and keep on walking.

Jon Acuff

#13. The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...

Mary Ritter Beard

#14. We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

Catherine Ponder

#15. I am nobody, even if I say I am this or that.

Santosh Kalwar

#16. A flower is not better when it blooms than when it is merely a bud; at each stage it is the same thing - a flower in the process of expressing its potential.

Paulo Coelho