Quotes of Primate - somelinesforyou

“ Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. ”

- Henry James

“ Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ 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. ”

- Lincoln Steffens

“ Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there. ”

- Henry James

“ Our chimpanzee health-monitoring project probably would not have happened without him. ”

- Steve Ross

“ I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did. ”

- Mark David Chapman

“ I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it. ”

- Neil Young

“ We're in Manila. Come on, gorilla; this is a thriller. ”

- Joe Frazier

“ If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. ”

- Paul Scofield

“ Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Chimpanzees are suffering horribly for our entertainment. ”

- Jane Goodall

“ You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. ”

- Lin Yutang

“ Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. ”

- George Carlin

“ The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. ”

- Robert Benchley

“ I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ”

- Angela Carter

“ The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". ”

- H. Allen Smith
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