Here are some proverbs and quotes about monkeys and apes.
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A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion.
A monkey in silk is a monkey no less.
No matter how someone dresses, it's still the same person.A strawberry doesn't ripen according to the wishes of a monkey.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H.L. MenckenI don’t sow ground nuts when the monkey is watching.
I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday.
Jane GoodallI have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad LorenzI learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.
Jane GoodallIf you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.
It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.
The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle.
The old monkey gets the apple.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert BenchleyWe admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.
Richard DawkinsWe are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the same ability to communicate complicated conditionals and what-ifs and talk about things that are not present.
Richard DawkinsWe are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
Stephen HawkingWe 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 HawkingWhat I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.
David AttenboroughWhen a monkey doesn't get a banana, he eats chillies.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana, he says it is not sweet.
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Yuval Noah HarariSource: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.