Monkey Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old monkey quotes, monkey sayings, and monkey proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh. Lorne Michaels
Even monkeys fall from trees. Chris Bradford
If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness! Mehmet Murat ildan
Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness. W. Winwood Reade
Monkey see, monkey do. People tend to do like others without thinking. Wolfgang
The ability to gauge intelligence is itself a form of intelligence. Monkeys don't ponder how smart monkeys are. Ditto for politicians. Jarod Kintz
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. Robert M. Hutchins
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. George Carlin
A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. Suzy Kassem
But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey. Albert Einstein
Never believe that body is permanent. Body is like a water bubble. Mind is like a mad monkey. Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas! Mehmet Murat ildan
It is not a monkey, not an ape and not a human, but it's a common ancestor of them all. Russell L. Ciochon
In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice. Mark Twain
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. Kevin Bacon
Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee and spirituous liqueurs. Charles Darwin
When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days! Mehmet Murat ildan
Never did an old monkey makes a pretty face. Francois Rabelais
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Stephen Hawking
No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito. James S.A. Corey
I learned the way a monkey learns by watching its parents. Prince Charles
Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? Stephen Baldwin
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys. Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. Henry James
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. Henry Walter Bates
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. Kenneth Grahame
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structure less life. Douglas Coupland
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. Russell Banks
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. Arthur Eddington
The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. William Henry Hudson