A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.

Spanish proverbs
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Dress the monkey in silk and it is still a monkey.

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

quote by Arthur Eddington
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My little playful monkeys

My little monkeys in the forest are all funny
As usual they jump from vine to vine
And fall and rise, and fall from river to river,
My little monkeys with little tails with little
Mouths and tiny baby-like hands, they wink
And play and chase and run and almost like bats
Flying from top to top of treetops from branch
To branch to twigs to twigs, all these cute
Little monkeys so playfully playful in the forest,
In my mind, I play with all of them throughout
The day, till noon, till afternoon, till nights even,

But no, when darkness comes, these cute little
Monkeys all return to bigger higher trees where
Their big monkey-mothers and big-monkey-fathers
Wait and care for them and all hide them in their arms.

And I am all left alone, like little Tarzan boy in an empty cave
feeling so deserted and betrayed.

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Do chattering monkeys mimic men, Or we, turned apes, out-monkey them?

Latin proverbs
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Young Banana

Monkey
Too
Monkey...

Catch too
Play with
Banana...

Banana
Not bad...
For young banana

Not for eat...
So...
Monkey's catch play

The banana...? ? ? ? ! ! ! !

poem by Otteri Selvakumar
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Brass Monkey

(chorus) brass monkey - that funky monkey
Brass monkey - junkie
That funky monkey
Got this dance thats more than real
Drink brass monkey - heres how you feel
Put your left leg down - your right leg up
Tilt your head back - lets finish the cup
M.c.a. with the bottle - d. rocks the can
Adrock gets nice with charlie chan
Were offered moet - we dont mind chivas
Wherever we go with bring the monkey with us
Adrock drinks three - mike d. is d.
Double r. foots the bill most definitely
I drink brass monkey and I rock well
I got a castle in brooklyn - thats where I dwell
(repeat chorus)
Cause I drink it anytime - and anyplace
When its time to get ill - I pour it on my face
Monkey tastes def when you pour it on ice
Come on yall its time to get nice

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song performed by Beastie Boys
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Open Your Arms

Sitting under the money tree
look for the fruits of charity
best to pick them fast for they too far gone
they grow rotten to the core on the greedy man's farm
open your moth the words don't come out
even though the thoughts in your head seem to flow
are you so afraid what everybody thinks
are you so afraid to show what you know

to get along, with your sister your brother
get along, we all the same under this shell

brother to brother and sister to sister
and people are people and...
open your arms

monkey do monkey see
why you want to upset me
monkey go monkey say
but let me live my life today

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poem by Harlan Lovestone
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Bad Monkey

Money

Is

Bad monkey...

Some time...

Love your pocket...

Some time love

Another's pocket....

So...

Money is

Bad monkey...

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poem by Otteri Selvakumar
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The Greying Primate

The leanness of youth
gives way
to a decidedly
simian shift
as gravity
over eating
and old age
takes its toll.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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The Smartest Monkeys

Well man created the cardboard box to sleep in it
And man converted the newspaper to a blanket
Well you have to admit that hes come a long way
Since swinging about in the trees
Were the smartest monkeys
The smartest monkeys
The evidence is all around
Our brains are bigger
This weve found
The smartest monkeys
Well man discovered the park bench can make a transition
And the rubbish tip makes a valid form of nutrition
With discoveries like these
Civilisation agrees
To give itself a pat on the back
Were the smartest monkeys
The evolutions plain to see
Were the dominant of the species
The smartest monkeys
We brought the caveman from the stoneage

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song performed by Xtc
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It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Woman-Monkey.

African proverbs
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Although a monkey be dressed in silk, she is still a monkey.

Mexican proverbs
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Although the monkey might dress in silk, monkey it still is.

Puerto Rican proverbs
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If you flog a baboon because it is ugly, you will end up killing it.

African proverbs
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Like A Monkey

i'm just LIKE A MONKEY
i'd rather take a beating
than sometime ignored me
i'm just LIKE A MONKEY
so beat me...on my mistake
But respect me in my joking activity
i'm just LIKE A MONKEY

poem by Khushi throne
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Shock Dat Monkey

(l.a. reid, babyface, daryl simmons, lisa left eye lopes)
Yo dis is tlc
Yeah and were back to school da girlies
And if n ya know dat yo man is startin to flip
Shock dat monkey on the tlc tip
Yall know we aint down for no monkey business
Erri uuhh erri uuhh erri
It aint even like that
Yo t-boz kick it
When you know that its good
And you know that its hot
All the girlies want a piece of what youve got
When a man is a man
And its all in his face
Hes gon jump all on it
Cause it bes that way
Gotta get up on it
Put that heart aside
Aint about that lovin
Its all about that pride

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Money makes monkeys of men.

Icelandic proverbs
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Fire

Fire is so beautiful to look at

Its flaming figure is bright saffron

It aspires to the sky

Where shines the Sun

Where lightening cries out in thunder

And warns man for monkeying

With technology-his the other

Fire seeks to mingle with the fire of the skies

poem by Dr. Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

quote by James Goldsmith
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