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A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.

Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company

Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.

"A New Model of the Universe: Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1931.

You never monkey with the truth.

"Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

A monkey could drive this train.

"EBay Bids on a New Path to Growth" by Verne G. Kopytoff, www.nytimes.com. February 06, 2011.

No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.

James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.154, Hachette UK

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.548, Penguin UK

I don't want my Patronus to be a monkey! Even though that's totally what it is.

"Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.124, Penguin

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?

Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.