I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.
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.
When you're dealing with monkeys, you've got to expect some wrenches.
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.
You never monkey with the truth.