#monk

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#looks #men #mirror #monkey #monkeys

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#chance #got #great #kenya #leaping

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #been #came #cannot #curse

When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records. ↗

— Gary Numan

#band #became #fan #go #had

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#could #down #get #jumping #monkeys

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split. ↗

— Mimi Rogers

#celibate #had #his #instrument #maintain

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. ↗

— William Henry Hudson

#exception #existence #monkeys #most #playful

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#hypocrisy #lust #misogyny #monks #pedophilia

Truth is beauty ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#block #clique #crown #forgiveness #life

His lips met mine again, this time in a slow, soft caress, conveying everything he had just said in those beautiful words that had reached my very soul. I could have drowned in that kiss. I could have lived there for eternity. It filled me up with everything I needed to survive. He gave me life through his lips and I treasured it. ↗

— Nicola Claire

#kindred-series #lucinda-monk #beauty