Monkeymen

[faegoddess]

"It said: 'See what monkeys we are! Look, such is man!' and at once all renown, all intelligence, all the attainments of the spirit, all profress towards the sublime, the great and the enduring in man fell away and became a monkey's trick

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[upaya]

"What, afterall, are man's truths? They are his irrefutable errors!" Nietzsche

[upaya]

"God, Schmod, I want my monkey-man!" Bart Simpson

[satyric]

"Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. But set fire to him, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." --Terry Pratchett

[crichton]

my favorites come from benjamin disraeli (prime minister of england, 1874-1880):

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations."

"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."