❀ Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
猴子有一點比人強:猴子照鏡子,看到的就是猴子。
Malcolm de Chazal(1902-1981),模里西斯作家、畫家
❀ You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can only make a monkey out of the voters every four years!
你可以永久地愚弄某些人,也可以偶爾愚弄所有人,但每隔四年你才能愚弄一回選民!
Pat Paulsen(1927-1997),美國喜劇演員
❀ Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
民主就是關於關在籠子裡的猴子如何掌控馬戲舞臺的藝術與科學。
H. L. Mencken(1880-1956),門肯,美國著名作家
❀ If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.
你要是能把獅子和猴子雜交,生下的就是我,因為猴子調皮滑稽,獅子孔武有力。
Marlon Wayans,(1972- ),馬龍. 韋恩斯,美國著名黑人喜劇演員
❀ Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
喜劇演員是表演界的猴子。你去動物園瞧瞧,誰都喜歡猴子的「表演」。
Tracy Morgan,(1968- ),美國黑人喜劇演員
❀ An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
美洲的猴子喝白蘭地喝醉一次後,就再也不碰白蘭地了。就此而言,猴子比多數人要聰明得多。
Charles Darwin,達爾文
❀ You never monkey with the truth.
真相是不可玩弄的。
Ben Bradlee(1921-2014),曾任《華盛頓郵報》執行主編二十多年
❀ 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.
在某些領域,專業知識派不上用場。挑選股票就是一個很好的例子。經驗表明,在長期政治戰略之預測方面,專家的表現不比擲骰子的猴子更好。
Daniel Kahneman,2002年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主
❀ Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
太多的空閒時間肯定會帶來混亂,因為多數人無法掌控缺乏結構的生活。
Douglas Coupland,道格拉斯·柯普蘭(1961- ),加拿大小說家
❀ The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
包管讓一個人出醜的方法就是引用他的話。
Robert Benchley(1889-1945),美國幽默作家
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