“You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town”
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”
“When I was little, my mother told me there are basically two kinds of people in the world: town people and circus people. The kind who stay are town people, and the kind who leave are circus people.”
“Monkeys can rip your face off.”
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.”
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN”