#monk

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#again #american #brandy #drunk #getting

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys. ↗

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#monkeys #peanuts #sell #soul #your

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!' ↗

— Lewis Black

#cable #company #dad #dollars #father

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#books #british #british museum #might #monkeys

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#crimes #crown #great #guilty #his

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#better #domains #example #expertise #experts

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#just #monkeys #out #people #you

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

— Winston Churchill

#grinder #hold #monkey #never #organ

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid. ↗

— Les Claypool

#i #kid #listened #little #little kid

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#caribbean #feel #get #i #i feel