150+ Catchy Monkey Day Quotes, Puns & Sayings

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Save Monkeys Slogans, Quotes, Taglines & Instagram Captions | Monkey Day

Save our Monkeys
Save our naughty friends
Let’s swing into action, Monkeys need our protection.
Stop the illegal bushmeat hunting
Don’t kill the beauty of the jungle
Want to shoot Monkeys?… Use cameras!
Shoot them, but with a camera.
Monkeys have a family too. Don’t kill them for your fun.
My mom never came back. Say NO to Trophy hunting
What is my crime?
Protect and respect
Let’s save our monkeys
Say hello to my new best friend!
I love Monkeys, Do you?
Let’s join hands to save Monkeys
Don’t let me disappear
Together we can save Monkeys
Save Monkey, Save life… Save planet
Live & let live
Jungles and monkeys are made for each other.
Without them, the world will not be the same. Save Monkeys
Save the monkeys before they start living just in our stories.
Nature is not against monkeys, why are you?
Once the monkey is history, it won’t repeat itself…
Keep calm & save the monkeys
You can’t love nature with a gun
Have a heart, do your part. Save the bonobs
Fight for the Monkey’s right
Love Monkeys, don’t eat them
When the buying of the meat stops, killings too
Meat is not our need,
Don’t kill monkeys for your greed

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Being ‘Extinct’ Stinks!
Extinction is forever
If monkeys are lost, we will pay the cost.
The ones who have no voice, need you to speak up.
Let’s unite as one, saving monkeys is just so fun
Help save their existence, monkeys need your assistance
For the Monkeys you must fight, so they won’t disappear out of sight
Monkeys are rapidly fading away; can’t we help them in some way?
It’s no fun to be endanger; show you care, don’t be a stranger.
Only if we understand… we can care;
Only if we care…we will help;
Only if we help… they shall be saved
“You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening… I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.” — Morarji Desai
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it alright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” ― Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing is more important than saving … the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.” — James Lee

Funny Puns & Family Friendly Jokes on Monkeys

You are ape-solutely cool!
I’d like to ape-ologize.
Let’s give her a round of ape-lause
I’m moving to a new ape-artment
Life is a selfie, and you’re a monkey
I am bananas for you!
What kind of key opens a banana?
— Mon-key
What do you call a bald ape in a temple?
— Monk-ey
What is the 4th month in a monkey’s calendar?
— Ape-ril
What is an ape’s favourite fruit?
— Ape-ricots
What do monkeys wear while cooking?
— Ape-ron
What do you call a monkey with a banana in each ear?
— Anything, it can’t hear you.
What do you call monkeys who share an Amazon account?
— Prime mates
What do you call a monkey that loves chips?
— A chipmunk.
What kind of monkey is the best to hang out with?
— A funkey!
What was the monkey wizard’s name?
— Hairy Potter
Why did the monkey take its banana to the doctors?
— It wasn’t peeling good.
Where do large monkeys go for fast food?
— Burger Kong.
What do you call a monkey from Greek Mythology?
— Ape-ollo

Famous Quotes on Monkeys | Monkey Day

“There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!” — Andy Dunn
“I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.” — Prince Charles
“People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it’s scary. And the bear because it’s intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.” — Lorne Michaels
“Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.” — Lin Yutang
“But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.” — Albert Einstein
“Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.” — Jane Goodall
“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.” — Radhanath Swami

Funny Quotes on Monkey

“Evolution isn’t true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?” — Stephen Baldwin
“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.” — Malcolm de Chazal
“People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“There’s a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they’d eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn’t true.” — Ian Hart
“I don’t mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
“God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot — and some of you people.” — Billy Sunday

Wise Quotes on Monkey

“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.” — Charles Darwin
“We are all just monkeys with money and guns.” — Tom Waits
“Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.” — W. S. Gilbert
“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.” — Richard Dawkins
“We’ve just barely stopped being monkeys.” — Duncan Trussell
“Even monkeys fall out of trees.” — J. F. Lawton
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” — Stephen Hawking
“When you’re dealing with monkeys, you’ve got to expect some wrenches.” — Alvah Bessie
“Writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words.” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Don’t sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.” — Dorothy Salisbury Davis
“An old monkey never makes a pretty face.” — Francois Rabelais
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” — George Carlin
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” — H. L. Mencken
“I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.” — Scott Ritter
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people, and monkeys do too (if they have a gun).” — Eddie Izzard

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“You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic.” — Moshe Feiglin
“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.” — Buster Keaton
“Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
“If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.” — Gautama Buddha

Popular Proverbs & Sayings on Monkeys

“In a piranha infested river, monkeys drink water using a straw.” — Portuguese Proverb
“Old monkeys don’t put their hand in jars.” — Portuguese Proverb
“An old monkey never forgets how to climb trees.” — Namibian Proverb
“All monkeys cannot hang on one branch.” — Kamba Proverb
“The day the monkey is destined to die, all the trees get slippery.” — African Proverb
“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” — Chinese Proverb
“The old monkey gets the apple.” — French Proverb
“The old monkey is caught last.” — Latin Proverb
“A monkey remains a monkey, though dressed in silk.” — Spanish Proverb
“Don’t sow ground nuts when the monkey is watching.” — African Proverb
“Had the monkey seen its ass, it wouldn’t have danced.” — Arabic Proverb
“Money makes monkeys of men.” — Icelandic Proverb
“A monkey cannot dare what an elephant can.” — Duala proverb
“Everything monkey see, monkey do.” — Bajan Proverb
“If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.” — African Proverb
“If money where to be found up in the trees, most people would be married to monkeys.” — African Proverb
“If you don’t want a tail of a monkey to touch you then don’t attend the monkey dance.” — African Proverb
“If you want to eat a monkey, don’t look in its eyes.” — African Proverb
“Teaching a monkey to eat with a fork and knife will never make it a man.” — African Proverb
“There is always a winner even in a monkey’s beauty contest.” — African Proverb
“When a monkey doesn’t get a banana, he eats chillies.” — African Proverb

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“When the mother monkey leaves her baby to fall, one must not blame the dried branch.” — African Proverb
“A monkey left behind laughs at the others tail.” — Acholi proverb
“A stranger does not share the monkey.” — Sudanese Proverb
“The head of a monkey, the headdress of a prince.” — Japanese Proverb
“A monkey makes fun of the red behinds of his fellow monkeys.” — Japanese Proverbs
“When the man is away, the monkey eats his corn and goes into his hut.” — Zulu Proverbs
“A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch, both cannot be saved.” — Indian Proverbs
“At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.” — Spanish Proverb
“Copying everybody else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat,” — Zulu Proverb
“A monkey never thinks her baby’s ugly.” — Haitian Proverb
“I don’t sow ground nuts when the monkey is watching.” — African Proverb
“The monkey knows which branch to swing on.” — Creole Proverb
“Can the monkey know the taste of ginger?” — Indian Proverb
“It is Mr. Old-Man-Monkey who marries Mrs. Old-Woman-Monkey.” — Ghanaian Proverb
“The monkey does not see his own hind backside; he sees his neighbor’s.” — Zimbabwean Proverbs
“The crocodile does not die under the water so that we can call the monkey to celebrate its funeral.” — Nigerian Proverb
“When the monkey can’t reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.” — Sudanese Proverb

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“These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.” — Indian Proverb
“The higher the monkey climbs, the more it is exposed to danger.” — Creole Proverb
“The monkey never complains that he has no comb.” — Myanmar Proverb
“A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion.” — Danish Proverbs
“By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.” — Cameroonian Proverbs
“On a dead tree there are no monkeys.” — Mozambican Proverb
“You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.” — Congolese Proverbs
“The monkey looks into the mirror and sees a gazelle.” — Arabian Proverb
“Only a monkey understands a monkey.” — Sierra Leonean Proverb
“Don’t cut off the monkey’s tail before it is dead.” — Congolese Proverb
“Remember, even monkeys fall out of trees.” — Korean Proverb
“He who gives a monkey as a present doesn’t keep hold of its tail.” — Ivorian Proverbs
“The monkey says there is nothing better than poverty to unlearn man of his conceit.” — Ghanaian Proverb
“If a monkey is amongst dogs, why won’t it start barking.” — Nigerian Proverb
“Kill the chicken to frighten the monkey.” — Chinese Proverb
“A tiger cannot beat a crowd of monkeys.” — Chinese Proverb
“The monkey will never wash with the same water twice.” — Netherlands Antillean Proverb

List of Monkey / Primate Related Days Celebrated Worldwide

Date	Day
31 January	Gorilla Suit Day
14 February	World Bonobo Day
7 March	Sock Monkey Day
14 June	Monkey Around Day
14 July	World Chimpanzee Day
21 July	Take a Monkey to Lunch Day
19 August	World Orangutan Day
24 September	World Gorilla Day
24 October	International Gibbon Day
Last Friday in October	World Lemur Day
3 December	International Baboon Day
14 December	Monkey Day

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